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Choccy lover or something
3 days ago

What's your salary? 2022 edition

It's been an economically tumultuous year so I'm sure there's a lot to discuss. You guys know the drill by now, but I added an extra questions seeing considering the situation many of us seem to be in.

Age:

Education:

Years of experience:

Function:

Monthly salary (before taxes):

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):

Extra legal-advantages:

Location:

Sector/Industry:

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

Previous editions:

2021

2020

2019

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· 3 days ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 31 (this one rises faster than my salary somehow)

Education: ASO (high school) and a professional course for my current job through VDAB

Years of experience: 0.5 working, 1 if you count the education too

Function: Bicycle mechanic (yes also ebikes lol)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2800

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2000

Extra legal-advantages: None so far

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: Uhhh bicycles

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I worked retail for 7 years, got paid absolute shit, worked shit hours and had to deal with the shittest of customers, colleagues and bosses and all it gave me was a shit burnout and massive anxiety. So right now I consider myself to be doing extremely well in contrast to my previous experiences. Life got a lot more expensive so I'm feeling the extra cash in my wallet less than I would like to, but I don't have any money problems and I'm kinda frugal so I'm happy with what I make. I just know that my job will probably get even more important post-apocalypse so it's all looking up from here.

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Bro, you make 2K a month fixing bycicles? I barely make that and have been fixing Mercedessen for almost 5 years.

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Are you working at an official Mercedes garage? Cause coincidentally I also work as a mechanic in a Mercedes garage. Only been working for 2 months and receive 2k netto a month. (additional taxes that I do not know of not included cause only just got out of school and got no knowledge of that yet). I think you're getting scammed, bruv.

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Nice turn around! 👍🏻

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· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Did anyone else get a jobbonus or am I the poorest in here?

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400 euro for 2021, people have to check their ebox if they earned less than 2500 euros bruto in 2021

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Hi, I got a jobbonus! Started working in Belgium June 2021, and got 300 (with the one-off 100 euro extra) for the 6 months!

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· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Ah so I’m richer cuz I only got 133 😂. And I graduated in 2010 so you’re still better of than me haha Edit:T9

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Ah so I’m richer cuz I only got 133

<3

Yes you are :D I wish you (and I mean this in the best way possible) no more jobbonus in the future, and you not even missing/needing that kind of extra. :)

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Wait, they already paid this? Didn't get mine yet. And yes I filled in my bank details.

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· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Yeah I got mine.

I’m still waiting for my aanslagbiljet though, which I need urgently to show the Dutch authorities to proof I can’t pay €1000 per month for my student loan 😰

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Age: 35

Education: Master degree in Law

Years of experience: 10

Function: lawyer

Monthly salary (before taxes): don't know

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3500

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijd cheques, insurances, MIVB and NMBS abonnement

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Public administration

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes...

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how can you know your net but not gross? even as independent it should be the other way around

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In public administration your salary is set by baremas. These are automatically adjusted for inflation and experience, so it's not uncommon to lose track of the evolution of your gross salary (but it can easily be found on your fiche de paie)

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In public administration your salary is set by baremas. These are automatically adjusted for inflation and experience, so it's not uncommon to lose track of the evolution of your gross salary (but it can easily be found on your fiche de paie)

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Same for me. Why would I even care about the "before taxes" amount unless some administration asks for it? I work for a living, not to fill taxes :) And literal taxes prefill it so not really needed in everyday management.

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Age: 27

Education: Bachelor of Engineering (5years)

Years of experience: 3

Function: Software developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2900

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000

Extra legal-advantages: Tickets repas 8 euros and train train subscription plus benefits that ammount to maybe 100 euros a month.

Location: Mechelen

Sector/Industry: Software solutions

Are you getting managing/content with your current income: pretty much. I'm saving up 300 euros a month while not depriving myself of stuff. And with the coming indexation I expect to be happier.

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· 3 days ago
Belgian Fries

One of the real comments here.

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level 2

Age: 29

Education: A2

Years of experience: 1

Function: (junior) network engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2650

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1980

Extra legal-advantages: tickets repas 8 euro, car + fuelcard, phone with unlimited data, laptop & home internet expense

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income:still with parents, saving minimum 1000 euro's a month

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Age: 25

Education: Uni masters degree (mechanical engineering)

Years of experience: 0.5

Function: design engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2700

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850

Extra legal-advantages: 140 food-cheques, company car, company fuel, hospital insurance/

Location: Liege

Sector/Industry: aerospace

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Currently yes. As the income is new to me, I find myself living at a living standard I never had before. However I am lucky because my rent is very (!) low (200€/monthly) and energy costs are also quite low (although increased since the beginning of the year).

Rent is so low because I share a small house with two other people. So 600€/monthly for the small house divided among 3 people. Still very price for a small house.

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Honestly, I am quite shocked at how people get the bare minimum with a masters degree. A co-worker is in the same situation, without a company car and I can't understand. Even a PhD told me he gets 2.5k€ net, it is insane.

My net is higher without a bachelor's degree, just a year of training last year.

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That seems quite a low pay for a masters degree honestly

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· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 38
Education: MA (African Linguistics)
Years of experience: graduated in 2010, worked in very different fields, current job since 2015
Function: customer care in multiple languages
Monthly salary (before taxes): current 2 day regime 1122 EUR
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1023 EUR
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdscheques, hospitalisatie kids
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: brokery/insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: i get sick leave paid by CM and tijdskrediet to get a full income and alimentatie from the government (DAVO) in the absence of a paying father, also my kinderbijslag is higher because of my low income.

combine all that with r/YNAB and i'm rocking this.

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· 2 days ago
Brussels

Have to admit it's the first time ever I hear about a MA in African Linguistics. Sounds great. Are you specialized in a set of particular languages?

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· 2 days ago
Antwerpen

Nah, taalkunde in Belgium is not like in the Netherlands. I learned how the system works. Enabling me to go to a remote location and figure out the language system to write a grammar book. As you can guess my fellow students were into bible translation 😂. I did focus on kirundi/kinyarwanda out of interest.

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As a self-employed accountant, i can say my net wage is 700/month. But it's abit more complicated than that, really...

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Does this mean you're licensed or an intern at the ITAA?

Was scrolling for accountant

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Age: 30

Education: Professional Bachelor Teacher (English - Music)

Years of experience: 6

Function: English Teacher

Monthly salary (before taxes): +- €3000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2165

Extra legal-advantages: NMBS pass for the 10 months I work

Location: Kapellen

Sector/Industry: Education

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Eh, considering I want to buy an appartment as a single person and can't save the way I really want, I'd say the answer here is bordering on "no".

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Age: 24

Education: KSO -> Bachelor interactive multimedia design

Years of experience: current workfield : 0.8 year (started in march)

Function: Full stack developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2279€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1874€

Extra legal-advantages: company car - fuelcard - laptop - mobile phone - mobile subscription - telework compensation

Location: Willebroek / Breda

Sector/Industry: IT sector

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm living with my partner so we for sure are managing, maybe we spend too much on "fun" stuff as we are barely saving anything every month (600 total) . i would love to earn a bit more as i really feel like i could use a 4/5th week (i feel like i dont have enough time to pursue hobbies or have any side projects) but overall i couldnt really complain.

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Op · 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Age: 24

Education: HS (TSO via a CVO) degree with some uni classes but never finished those

Years of experience: 3.5

Function: IT Support

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3150

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100 +250-300 extra every few months for being on call

Extra legal-advantages: Pension fund, public transport and bicycle lease, hospitalisation insurance, guarenteed income insurance, etc

Location: Brussels Capital Region

Sector/Industry: Healthcare IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Considering my background I consider myself extremely fortunate. I know plenty of people who are struggling and am glad to be able to pay the bills and not having to worry about that much. Living under a roof with three other incomes also helps loads.

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Age: 45

Education: Master in Communication Sciences KULeuven

Years of experience: 22

Function: Marketing director

Monthly salary (before taxes): 10.057

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4.886

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, fuel card, hospitalisation, group insurance, bonus system (can earn up to 30% of annual salary on top), BYOD allowance, home working allowance

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: US-headquartered multinational

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Super satisfied. Started at this company about 15 years ago at half the salary and no company car - and gradually moved up the ranks. Big bump last year since getting the promotion to director. I could make even more by moving to the US HQ (up to 2xgross, 3xnet) but I prefer staying in Belgium. My US colleagues have a lot more money in their pocket, but have to spend it all on housing, health, education, entertainment, etc. I'm more content to live in a country that takes care of its citizens, even if it means paying high taxes. I have teenage kids of which one has health issues - I'm blessed to be able to deal with this in Belgium. Also, the higher education choices they'll make soon are not going to financially cripple me or them. I'm very fortunate to be in this position, don't mind sharing my wealth. I am locked in a golden cage now though - recently looked at a superinteresting director position at a local Belgian company and the monthly salary was 5K to 6K max. I'll stay where I am for now.

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I misread and thought you were 22 and I was ready to throw down. :’)

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Excuse me for asking. But you started there at 5k per month?

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To be precise, I looked up my starting salary in the system. I started at this company in an online marketing position (individual contributor) for an annual salary of €59K gross in 2008. I gradually grew to €100K annual gross by 2021 - and then this year came a big jump since becoming director. The way this company is set up, there's a huge jump when being promoted to director.

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· 3 days ago
Traffic Cop

Can't wait for the next round of humblebrags

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· 3 days ago
80s child, not a Nazi.

While true, I do think it's important for people to talk about wages.

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Holy shit, Belgian companies are really ripping of their junior IT people and engineers. I have a friend in Germany who recently became a primary school teacher (not civil servant) and she gets more net per month than some of the people in this thread. And no, she is not living in Munich.

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the only way to make real money in IT in Belgium is to become freelance. I am not posting in this thread because people would simply think I am bragging but when I see not only the salaries of the juniors but also the seniors then yes the only conclusion is that Belgian ITers get ripped hard.

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Belgians are just really afraid to push for higher wages, it's a cultural problem. Almost none of my friends want to ask for a raise even though they work a lot, do their job well but still complain that they have financial difficulties.

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· 3 days ago
West-Vlaanderen

Meanwhile me: programmer with 5 years experience in a school I get paid as a teacher because i am one on paper

How much does a teacher earn in germany?

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Op · 3 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Honestly me reading, let alone making these posts should constitute as self-harm...

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· 3 days ago
Brussels Old School

Reading this thread perhaps the mistake I made was not dropping out of Secondary/University.

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brb im dropping out

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This thread is surprisingly less depressing than I thought. Yay!

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Eh, i like seeing how far behind my government paycheck puts me. Though i recall some guy posting a 10k after taxes wage at some point which made me go: fml.

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· 3 days ago
Belgian Fries

If the poster is truthful, that’s a major outlier. Don’t make any conclusions based on it.

A big “if” on an anonymous internet site…

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
Beer

Age: 23

Education: Master Computer Science

Years of experience:0

Function: Developer (Cobol/.Net)

Monthly salary (before taxes):3300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100

Extra legal-advantages: Meal/eco voucher, end of year/sector bonus, smartphone, public transport, internet, insurance and insurance related perks,...

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Insurance/Banking

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Especially considering it is an education track.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

2100 for developping in cobol ??
edit : and a master as well ... damn

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With 0 experience though. COBOL pays really well, but only to experienced people…

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No experience and basically fixed starter wage for these tracks. Cobol is pretty easy for junior stuff. Experienced cobol developers is where the shortage is.

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· 3 days ago
Belgian Fries

You have a nice salary. Don’t let this sub make you believe otherwise.

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More than happy with what I get, smart enough to realise that this thread is skewed towards high earners. And I am able to do basically all what I want with this income so I am satisfied.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 33

Education: Bachelor degree

Years of experience: 11 years (current job 6 years)

Function: CAM Investment Fund Admin Services

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4,200

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2,550

Extra legal-advantages: Yearly performance and collective bonuses of about 3,500 gross; monthly internet&phone subscription of 70 gross (only ATN deducted); teleworking allowance of about 40 gross; 13th month & holiday pay.

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Finance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes I feel very happy and appreciated by my colleagues and superiors. Been working at my current employer for about 6 years.

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Age: 43

Education: high school

Years of experience: 5

Function: security technician

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2750€

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, laptop, gsm, 13th month, profit participation, eco chèques, hospital insurance, pension fund

Location: Belgium, nationwide

Sector/Industry: Security/tech

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, very much

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How high is your net allowance? Must be like 700 euros to get to that net salary.

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Yes, something like that, I get a lot of net bonussen + km's payed

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You get a company car + fuel card and you also get your km's payed?

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You get your km's paid and have a company car?

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Age: 32

Education: Master degree in Art History

Years of experience: 8

Function: Logistics Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350€

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijd cheques,,laptop, smartphone, bedrijfswagen met tankkaart

Location: Zeebrugge

Sector/Industry: Port Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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What's your salary? 2022 edition

Age: 36

Education: Master of Sociology + Advanced Master of European Studies

Years of experience: 11

Function: Data Analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000 EUROS [NOTE I WORK 80% BECAUSE I WANT TO]

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050 EUROS

Extra legal-advantages: hospital insurance, 13th month, success bonus if company objectives achieved, maaltijd cheques, homework payment

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Professional Training

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I honestly do not understand this question but other people are talking about the work environment so here goes : love the colleagues, hard top down management, lots of work and crazy work rythm (but I stopped doing any unpaid over hours and started working 80% and life is much better).

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You don’t have to yell at us about working 80%! That sounds really nice.

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Age: 30

Education: Master of Laws

Years of experience: 6

Function: consultant financial sector

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3500 (2700 net + 200 representation allowance + 600 net for housing but have to hand in my car for it). 15% of wage paid in intellectual property rights for lower taxes.

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, ecocheques, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, performance bonus.

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Financial sector

Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: I just got this job so I expect to be happy for the foreseeable future

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"sweatshopworker" ahahaha

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15 % paid in IP as a financial consultant? You’re fucked!

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I know I’m in for a world of hurt once that advantageous tax rule gets abolished :s

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Age: 30

Education: Master of Arts

Years of experience: 5

Function: Customer Service Specialist B2B

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2082

Extra legal-advantages: €160 meal vouchers/month, ecocheques, commute, group insurance, hospital insurance for everyone living with me, individual and group bonuses

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Construction

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, the pay could be better, but I have a lot of freedom, my manager's got my back, I can WFH whenever I want, I can usually take some time off pretty last minute for my own side hustle... can't complain.

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Age: 41

Education: College (multimedia and communications tech)

Years of experience: 20-ish

Function: digital communications manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): +/- 4000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- 3000

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers (8€ day)

Location: remote (I work for an organisation based in UK)

Sector/Industry: NGO

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yeah

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· 3 days ago
Cuberdon

Age: 39

Education: Master

Years of experience: 13ish

Function: Teacher of Dutch for non native speakers + student counselor (working 4/5 now)

Monthly salary (before taxes):?

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2250

Extra legal-advantages: compensation for biking to work, public transport compensation

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Education

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I feel lucky to do a job I love, even though the commute takes me 1,5h one way (and it has nothing to do with my degree) . Compared to other sectors I don't make so much but I feel it's enough. Pension should be good too so, that's a plus.

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Just to lower the average of this sub, lol:

Age: 27

Education: Bachelors, Law; currently enrolled in Leuven for Master in Economics, Business, Management;

Years of experience: 5

Function: Projects Assistant (but really Project Coordinator)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2450

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: eco chèque, work for home allowance, transport, phone - all included in the above except DKV dental insurance and hospitalisation, and end of year bonus around 1-2k

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: consultancy, renewable energies

Yes to managing content

RIP my career

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RIP my career

Hop some jobs, see some sights, start living!

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I shall soon! Applying to some cheeky EU institutions atm ;)

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I wouldn't consider this sub average or median. I think there's a lot of people earning 1700-1800 lurking around not feeling like posting their lower, but still okay income. Most commenters actually have a degree as well. This helps. I think everyone earning 2000+ net can consider their income as "good". You can live by yourself with that money and still have leftovers at the end of the month.

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· 3 days ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Age: 28

Education: Master of Law

Years of experience: 5

Function: In-house legal counsel

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4.040,67 €

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.516,37 €

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, phone and phone plan, lots of WFH, 35 days paid vacation, tenured

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Government

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm quite happy with my current income for my age / experience, but I've taken up a lot of extra responsibilities and have thus pushed for a promotion which should (fingers crossed) take place sometime next year. This should see my salary before taxes raise an extra 1.25k.

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Did you start your career as a lawyer before getting hired as inhouse legal counsel? I feel like that's a requirement

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· 3 days ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 25

Education: Secundary

Years of experience: 2

Function: Financial Support/Planning

Monthly salary (before taxes): around 2600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2080 + 120 meal vouchers, overtime & various compensation paid out.

Extra legal-advantages: A whole lotta discount codes, work laptop

Location: Brussels (but usually work from home)

Sector/Industry: Gov

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Not at all, pushing for promotions asap.

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Op · 3 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Oh yeah Benefits@Work, forgot I have that too….

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Age: 31

Education: Two professional bachelors

Years of experience: 6

Function: Data engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 1800

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2050

Extra legal-advantages: Car, Maaltijdcheques, work from home bonus, etc

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm a freelancer so I don't give myself the biggest salary, but I live a good life like this

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How do you have more after tax than before?

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Netto benefits like wfh

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netto benefits are excluded, also a big part of it is copyrights compensation

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
Brussels

Age: 32

Education: highest education is 1 year specialisation master in economics and business

Years of experience: 4.5 in this industry/role, otherwise 9

Function: Senior Business Architect

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3588

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2490

Extra legal-advantages:

  • paid internet at home

  • phone + phone credit

  • company car

  • MIVB/STIB yearly card

  • meal vouchers

  • eco cheques

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT Consultancy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm not sure what this last question means and I didn't read other answers for inspiration. Might edit later. EDIT: I guess the "by" in getting by which is missing really confused me. I'm very happy with my current salary and job content, but the hours at my company are crazy so I'm looking to change. I actually have two offers and the highest is 4400 bruto and 2869 neto with similar benefits to what I have now. I was not after the salary increase, not such a big one at least, but IT talent is scarce, so they're willing to offer quite a bit.

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· 2 days ago
Limburg

If your employer tells you you're a senior architect, they're either buttering you up with a fancy title or are greatly underpaying you.

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Age: 28

Education: HBO5 verpleegkunde

Experience: 3 years

Monthly before tax: 2724

Monthy after tax: 2220

Extra legal advantages: Hospitalization verzekering, maaltijdcheques 7 EUR per gewerkte dag, KM + fiets vergoeding, 10 dagen extra verlof, ecocheques, eindejaarspremie.

Location: Zuiderkempen

Sector: healthcare

Are you content? Yes but more is always better

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· 3 days ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Age: 26

Education: Bachelor in Logistics management

Years of experience: 2

Function: Operations care

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000, including bonusses around 2150

Extra legal-advantages: Luncheon vouchers, car, hospitalization insurance, 13th month

Location: Machelen, Brucargo

Sector/Industry: Logistics sector, airfreight

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Managing is easy because I still live with my parents. I pay them 250 rent every month. I’m also quite happy with my current salary.

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· 3 days ago
West-Vlaanderen

Age: 28

Education: A2

Years of experience: 6

Function: Support Engineer (2nd line)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, fuel card, eco & maaltijdcheques, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: IT consultancy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

I have bought a house on my own this year and i still can set 600 euros each month aside.

The energy crisis and inflation doesn't affect me that much

I will also be promoted in 2023 and will receive 4000 euros gross then, so i definitely can't complain

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Age: 28

Education: bso verzorging.

1 year of experience

Function: technician pest control

Before taxes 2250.

After: 1900-2000euro

Extra legal advantages: car (with way too much ads on)+ tankkaart for private use too. Meal vouchers, 13month, vacation money. Flexible hours, i can choose when i start/stop. No commute as my hours start/stop when i leave/reach home.

Location: provincie Antwerp

Bigger pay would be welcome but we manage.

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Age: 27

Education: University drop-out

Years of experience: 4,5

Function: Forwarder

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500

Monthly net salary: ca €2250

Extra-legal: health insurance, pension, maaltijdcheques

Location: Antwerp

Sector: logistics

Managing perfectly fine since i started co-housing with a friend. Before that? So-so...

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Age: 24

Education: Master of Science in Computer Science

Years of experience: 0

Function: Software developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3350

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: Maaltijdcheques, km vergoeding, internet and mobile paid for me

Location: Kortrijk

Sector/Industry: IT

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Age: 34

Education: Bachelor IT

Years of experience: 10

Function: Integration Architect

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3560

Extra legal-advantages: electric car + installation of charging station (Polestar 2/Tesla M3/BMW i4), mobile + subscription, eco cheques, meal cheques, yearly bonus (4000 to 15000 brut) which can be partially cashed out through warrants and stock options, pension, NMBS/MIVB/De Lijn/Tec subscription, intellectual property scheme, representation allowance, daily allowance, home working allowance, bicycle commute compensation, several insurances.

Location: Brussels based, but working across Europe

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I really can't complain financially.

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I just checked, it includes representation allowance and the intellectual property tax scheme. Single by the way.. no kids.

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Age: 29

Education: A2 + 7th specialisation year

Years of experience: 5

Function: Operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 7485

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3870 (My salary varies a lot between 3000-4000 due to overtime(we do alot of OTs) and unpaid leave(Shift work gets compensated into days off that aren't paid))

Extra legal-advantages: Meal-Vouchers + Eco cheques.

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Chemical Industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I don't think I have much to complain after being a drop out of school and doing a 7th year when I was 24 year old, I am extremely happy with what I have now.

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3000 more gross for same net as another response. Taxes suck

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What kind of work is this exactly?

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Making sure chemical plant doesn't blow up.

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I'm guessing he works in shifts and works a lot of nights/weekends. That'll make the pay go up fast, but when you're young why not? Also: the chemical industry is usually very well paid.

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You are correct, I work 7/7 (not counting vacation days) in 3 shifts (Early, Late, Night)

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As an "Operator" Function I'm in control of my assigned "Line" (Line is usualy referred to a production line sinds most chemical industries have more then 1).

Basicly what that means is that it's my responsibility to ensure that my Line is working fine and has no issues, keep in mind that these machines work 24/7 around the clock so a problem is inevitable.

Besides the basic Operator function I also act as a safety person on my Line which means if I see people working on my line and if I think they are not following safety protocols or working on something that could risk their health I am allowed to deny them the work and then I have to send them to my foreman which has the last say if they can continue or not.

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Age: 31

Education: Bachelors, Masters and postgraduate

Function: Library Employee

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200ish

Monthly salary: 2182

Extra-legal: eco vouchers, hospitalisatieverzekering, nmbs + lijn abonnement

Location: Vlaams-Brabant

Sector: Education

Are you managing?: barely, but a 1000/month extra would be nice

(On mobile)

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Age: 23

Education: Professional Bachelor

Years of experience: 1.5

Function: HSE (Health Safety Environment) Advisor

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2250

Extra legal advantages: hospitalisation insurance, pension plan, 13th month, 14th month, yearly bonus, company car + fuel card, phone, laptop

Location: Multiple sites in Belgium and the Netherlands but head office in Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Recently changed company and got a big raise, definitely happy with this

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Age: 35

Education: Bachelor IT

Years of experience: 13

Function: Support coördinator / operation manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800

Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel, cellphone + plan, eco cheques, consumption cheques, yearly bonus (2.000 net), pension, 13th month,.. oh and yearly 5day trip (Egypt, ski,..)

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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Age: 33
Education: academic master in psycholinguistics
Years of experience: 1
Function: Dead end job at NMBS/SNCB as a clerk ordering shoes
Monthly salary (after taxes, I don't know the gross amount): 2050
Sector: NMBS (I consider this a sector of its own)
Content? Sure, considering how hard I have to work for it. Studying Applied IT though, so I hope my salary will change for the better.

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As a clerk ordering shoes?

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Age: 51

Education: high school

Years of experience: 30

Function: financial analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5750

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, healthcare insurance, bonus

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Textile

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: very happy

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Belgian Fries

Age: 24

Education: Professional Bachelor

Years of experience: 2

Function: Property Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2020

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900

Extra legal-advantages: Meal Vouchers (€5), Fuel Card

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: Real Estate

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No not really, I’m not struggling since I was able to buy a house with my partner this year, but for the hours I’m working and the stress that comes with it, I feel underpayed, especially when comparing my pay with other similar companies.

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Age: 32

Education: None, never finished highschool

Years of Experience: none, started my business being self-taught. Dropped out of highschool in 5th grade, messed up my life due to drug addiction. Turned it around by age 24 and started my business freelancing.

Function: data analyst / programmer

Monthly salary (before taxes): Around 6000 - 8000 EUR

Monthly salary (after taxes): around 2800 EUR

Extra legal-advantages: company car, I'm self employed, so bought it myself for the tax-break & all the possible pension plans you can get as an eenmanszaak

Location: Around Leuven

Sector: IT

Am I managing/happy with my income: Yeah it's more than enough to do whatever I want and to save. Currently investing a lot into ETF's to get a decent pension when I'm retired (thanks r/BeFire) and I get to travel a lot. It was extremely hard to get to this point, before I started working as a freelancer, I did a lot of crappy jobs, was guided by the OCMW, VDAB, it was all bullshit. I finally made a clickn thinking that I would never want to experience that again, so I started teaching myself how to program (this was always an interest of mine, I knew how to write bash scripts etc, just not real programming) and I got a gig at Microsoft. Found more clients and now I'm at a point where I have more work than I can handle.

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Age: 30

Education: master na master in de huisartsgeneeskunde (9 jaar in totaal)

Years of experience: 1

Function: huisarts

Monthly salary (before taxes): 9000-10 000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000-4000

Extra legal-advantages: gratis hapjes en drankjes op bijscholingen

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Gezondheidszorg

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: ja

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it is absolutely ridiculous how much taxes people pay here

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Once you grt to the 4k mark, where the highest tax scale starts, its indeed ridiculous.

And once you reach max yearly amount for pension (+-62k) it’s disgusting as you arent really getting anything back

All while making decent money, but nothing that seriously high

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I feel you 100%, the unlimited social contributions based on your income while your pension is artificially capped is the biggest scam when it comes to being an employee. And for that you get some of the lowest pensions in Western-Europa and Scandinavia.

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Thank you for choosing to be a huisarts. You are the first line. It is often ungrateful and very intense work based on the testimonials of house doctors around me and to me severely underpaid especially when compared to surgeons and anesthesiologists.

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I hope you have a BV and that 3k is your official wage and you're waiting to cash out the rest that's in the company more efficiently. Else you should talk to an accountant.

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Age:

28

Education:

Master of sciences

Years of experience:

2

Function:

Logistics

Monthly salary (before taxes):

~4000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):

~2600

Extra legal-advantages:

13th month, maaltijdcheques, ecocheques.

Location:

Antwerp

Sector/Industry:

Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

Yeah, can't complain. Kind of rolled into this and it's not really my dream job but the pay is too high to look for something else.

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Age: 34

Education: Bachelor (arts)

Years of experience: 5

Function: Software testing consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2635

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2083

Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card, phone subscription, meal vouchers, author's rights, net allowance, 13th month, profit sharing, eco vouchers, hospital insurance, ambulante insurance, invalidity (also temporary) insurance, extra pension

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes!

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Cuberdon

Age: 25

Education: Bachelor Graphic Design and Digital Media

Years of experience: 3

Function: Front-end developer, Social Media Manager, .. creative-everything

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2690

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1780 (I work 4 days a week at company, 1 day as freelancer)

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers 8 euro/day, 2 days a week WFH 20 euro/month, KM compensation 5,5 euro/day

Location: Bruges

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Should I be? I don't know anymore. I don't have a lot to save.

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A lot of different responsibilities for so little :(

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Belgium

Age: 33

Education: Master in Software Engineering

Years of experience: 9

Function: Freelance Product Owner

Monthly salary (before taxes): Around 13.000-14.000€/month (VAT Excl.)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 5500€/month (prorated to 13,92x/year)

Extra legal-advantages: (from my own company) Car + Phone + Internet subscription + Phone subscription + Fuel card + Meal & Eco vouchers + Complementary pension

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Financial Services Industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I'm paid roughly 2k€ more per month than when I was an employee. On top of that I have much more liberty to define my remuneration package how I want to. But don't forget that as a Freelance there always is a risk of not having revenue, not finding a new mission, not being able to adapt your invoices to inflation etc. And it can therefore become more stressful sometimes.

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Age: 30

Education: Master Computer Science Engineering (Burgerlijk Ingenieur)

Years of experience: 2,5

Function: Data Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 10.400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 5.900

Extra legal-advantages: /

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Energy

Are you managing/content with your current income?: Of course happy where I am right now. Worked hard to get here. Started 2 years ago with a salary of 3K (before taxes) but I learned to jump ship fast and learned the basics of negotiating salary, how the labour market works etc.

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Are you freelance?

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I'm wondering the same thing. How can you go from 3k to over 10k in 2.5 years. How many different companies? Working for an international company?

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Yes working freelance now. Switched companies for the 3rd time this summer. Yes, international company.

There is a risk/compensation trade-off you have to make compared to employment. Although freelance doesn't come with 'extra legal advantages', there are of course other advantages ("kosten inbrengen"). Sad reality but our industry encourages switching companies to renegotiate your actual market value.

How to move from 3k to 10k? Couple of things:

  • Computer Science... no way around it. It's a very booming business.

  • Startups will always pay shit. They're actively trying not to die as a company. Want to make money? Research the companies you're applying to. (eg glassdoor.com).

  • Labour market in a capitalistic system means you are not paid for how 'essential' or 'hard working' you are, but you are paid based on simple supply and demand: how bad companies really want this labour, and how many other people are offering it. I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, understand what the market is asking, talk to many recruiters, made some of them my friends. They understand the market better than anyone. I continuously take extra courses in my field that are extremely valued and under-supplied, driving up my own value. For example: many computer scientists go in AI. AI is so hyped they collectively drive their own value down, competing with "booth camp" engineers and every other scientific degree (mathematicians, physicists etc) that jumps the same market.

  • No one likes finding a new job. The process is stressful and time-demanding. That's an opportunity. If no one likes finding a new job, companies are using that against you. There's value in becoming good at finding a new job. It's a completely unique skill unrelated to your schooling. Learn it anyway.

  • Interviewing is a skill to be learned. I took a lot of time understanding the process, resume, technical selection rounds etc. I switched companies 3 times but I've interviewed at 23 and applied at 200+. I'm actually just always accepting interviews, even today, just to get the interview experience and feel the market.

  • Hiring managers don't only look for raw skill, they very actively look for social people who will take ownership of projects and are fun to work with.

  • Two weeks before I signed my current contract, another company HR manager was screaming at me through the phone for asking 75K with 2 years of experience. 'Completely unacceptable' he said. If you don't know/research your market value, don't be surprised to be underpaid.

  • Yes, you can play out companies against one another and let them outbid each other.

  • A company pays you in cash but equally importantly in experience. I always knew the experience I was going to get when signing a contract was going to significantly bump up my value a year later.

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Vlaams-Brabant

Damn that’s interesting. I can tell you are a guy that knows what he’s doing. I’m still at Uni but I’ve saved your comment for later, that’s for sure.

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I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, understand what the market is asking, talk to many recruiters, made some of them my friends.

Do you have any sources that you can share with us that taught you how to think like this or just places where you learned these things?
Maybe even Youtube channels, blogs, books?
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

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Started 2 years ago with a salary of 3K (before taxes) but I learned to jump ship fast and learned the basics of negotiating salary, how the labour market works etc.

Do you have some tips to share? Asking for a friend.

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Age: 36

Education: ASO (high school)

Years of experience: 15 years in the same field.

Function: Category Manager CAPEX

Monthly salary (before taxes): 6324

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3400

Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card, laptop, cell phone, internet and mobile contract paid for, meal vouchers 8 EUR/day, group insurance, pension plan, participation in management bonus plan. Compensation for electricity usage when working at home (80 EUR/month)

Location: West Flanders

Sector/Industry: Textile

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Yes, with ease.

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Aight, let me probably be the first to state how little I made a few months ago (vs. currently)

Age: then 21, now 22

Education: industrial product design with a minor in engineering + high school electromechanics

Years of experience: just over 1 now

Function: then carbon fibre frabricator (plus minor design), now CAD designer

Monthly salary (before taxes): then 1700, now 2600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): then roughly 1500, now 2100-2150 including fietsvergoeding and extra 150 net

Extra legal-advantages: then none, now maaltijdcheques (€160/mo) & groepsverzekering. I also just signed the lease for a cargo bike

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: then carbon fibre boat building, now sustainable packaging

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Then: no not really, I was in a lotta money related stress because I still wanted to save up for a house one day, and moving out isn't cheap. Now: yes totally. I save a lotta money each month and although I'm still careful with money (I also grew up in a family with not much money), I don't have to count every single little thing I spend money on like I used to.

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Age: 31

Education: B.A. in Sociology, M.A. in International Relations, and some Data Science.

Years of experience: 2 in field, 5 out field.

Function: Project Manager.

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2698€ (28h/week)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000€ (28h/week)

Extra legal-advantages: 120 food vouchers

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: NGO

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? : Pretty much yeah. Plenty of free time and decent salary, can't complain.

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Age: 26

Education: TSO, only highschool

Years of experience: 7

Function: Sales

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000-8000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800-4000

Extra legal-advantages: car, phone, fuel card, healt insurance, 13th month bonus.

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: Automotive (cars)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Extremely satisfied, i know i am lucky to be in this position at my age.

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Throwaway because people from real life might recognize my username.

Age: 24

Education: Master's in Biology

Years of experience: almost 1! So 0 on paper.

Function: PhD student

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2375

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2375 (technically still a "student")

Extra legal-advantages: free work bike, even an electrical one if you wish.

Commute costs compensation and cycling compensation

~ €200 per year ecocheques

Idk about insurances or pension

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: Academics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes perfectly fine, combined with my partner's income. But part of that is bc we were able to buy an apt with relatively low mortgage, thanks to my grandparents' financial help. I realize that I am very lucky to have that and otherwise it might not have been so easy.

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You can get cheap hospitalisatie via KU Leuven. And you can’t do “pensioensparen” because you don’t pay taxes (afaik)

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Age: 31

Education: ASO degree, dropped out of uni

Years of experience: 8

Function: Support Engineer Benelux

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2850ish (before indexation next month)

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**Currently 2280ish, will probably drop a bit once it's adjusted for the fact that my wife is now working

Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card (Europe), hospitalisation insurance for family, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, smartphone + subscription, 100eur net expense compensation

Location: Gent

Sector/Industry: Construction supply

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Had a difficult financial month (cat related mishaps) so could be better. Now that my wife is working we'll have a lot more breathing room financially though.

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Age: 39

Education: Civil engineer

Years of experience: 16

Function: Data & Innovation

Monthly salary (before taxes): 7285 €

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~3800 €

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Railpass 1st class Benelux + free tickets in Europe, no car, job safety, automatic indexation

Location: Charleroi

Sector/Industry: Railway Infrastructure

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I don't need to think too much about money and I like my job.

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Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 25

Education: 7th year Sen-Se

Years of experience: 2.5

Function: Chemical process operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5313.46 euro

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3286.23 euro

Extra legal-advantages: options for leasing, shiftwork so lots of vacation days, maaltijdcheque, pension fund, bustransport from/to work.

Location: Port of Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Chemical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, able to save around 1.2k each month while renting an appartement

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Age: 25

Education: Civil Engineering + Complementary Big Data Master

Years of experience: 2

Function: Project Officer (More Management of the ERP system of the company)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4574

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2650 + 20 for internet

Extra legal-advantages: Cafetaria Plan (Sacrifice Bruto to gain Car) + Free meal at work restaurant (no meal vouchers) + Stib/trein abonnement + 35 days off + GSM + Discount on fuel

Location: Bruxelles

Sector/Industry: Petrol industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I feel extremely lucky, the content is challenging, managing is young and supportive, but I must say a lot of work and responsibilities for my age. Need to be perfectly tri-lingual, but my written dutch still needs improvements.

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Age: 28

Education: Master in elektromechanical engineering

Years of experience: 3.5

Function: Calculator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1970

Extra legal-advantages: company car, gas, mealcheques

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Metal

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am managing but find it very low. Don't understand why my netto is that low as some people with 2200 bruto can also earn 2000 netto. Would like to have more as a master with a few years of experience.

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Would agree, imho this is underpaid. Solution is quite easy:look around

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Age: 38

Education: bachelor IT

Years of experience: 16

Function: IT Director

Monthly salary (before taxes): 9100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4700

Extra legal-advantages: meal and eco vouchers, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, company car + fuel card, mobile phone + subscription, laptop, ipad + subscription, yearly bonus,

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Pharmacy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: just about :)

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Age: 26

Education: Master Computer (Engineering) Science

Years of experience: 3

Function: Technical consultant, currently doing Cloud DevOps

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2850

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel pass, meal vouchers, eco cheques, profit sharing bonus. My company chose to be careful not to hand out too many auteursrechten (4%)

Location: Leuven-Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT consulting

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, cohousing in an appartment goes pretty well. Just missed the boat on the super cheap mortgages though. Although I do get a good net and good benefits, the low brut means I will not get a lot of benefit from the indexation now.

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Age: 50

Education: Masters in hard sciences

Years of experience: 28

Function: Senior Advisor

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~ €10.000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~ €5.000

Extra legal-advantages: nearly none

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Government - ICT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure

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Age: 34 Education: MBA Years of experience: 12 Function: Senior Communications Manager Monthly salary (before taxes): 7413€ Salary after tax: 4070€ - including representation fees 350€ Extra-legal advantages: mobile phone, company car, lunch checks, hospitalization insurance, dental insurance, eco checks, performance bonus, representation fee 200€, dry cleaning fee 50€, teleworking expenses 100€ Location: Brussels Sector: Public relations

Am I content? Yes - but I can't really leave this job..Interviewed for a director level. They barely paid 5.5k gross.... I can never go back working for so little money but on the other hand this means I will never leave this job...

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Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 25

Education: Master of History

Years of experience: more or less 1,5 years

Function: administrative assistant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2266,59

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1862,45

Extra legal-advantages: Meal checks (€8), hospitalisation insurance, probably some minor stuff I've forgotten. No salary cars or anything like that.

Location: Flemish Ardennes, Oost-Vlaanderen

Sector/Industry: Local government/culture

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I wouldn't say no to a raise, but I certainly can't claim I'm struggling. Ask me again in a couple of months when I've moved out and have to pay all of my own bills.

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Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 23

Education: bach degree automotive technology

Years of experience: 1

Function: Bus Driver

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~3000-3400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~2000-2200

Extra legal-advantages: mobib for de lijn, tec and mivb, voedselcheques and the usual

Location: east flanders

Sector/Industry: (public) public transport

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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Age: 39

Education: Theology Master and Mathematics Master

Years of experience: 17

Function: CEO

Monthly salary (before taxes): -

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 50000 +

Extra legal-advantages: -

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Mining / Gemstone / Jewelry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: -

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Age: 28

Education: Nursing Bachelor

Years of experience: 2

Function: Head nurse

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4050

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2467

Extra legal-advantages: None

Location: Antwerp region

Sector/Industry: Elderly Care

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm managing, but I feel like I work very very hard and don't get enough credits for my work. I would like extralegal advantages but that is difficult.

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Something is unclear for me here… People on the range of 3500-3800 before taxes claim a NET salary around 2400-2500€.

I receive 4000 brutto a month and also make only 2430 net (single and no children!). Is this difference solely based on the fact of not having children?

People reporting around 4K brutto claim net salary higher than what I receive:/

I work and live on Antwerp.

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Age: >50

Education: master of laws

Years of experience: ~30, all combined.

Function: senior legal counsel, head of (highly specialized) department

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~8500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~4500

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, free public transport if I wanted it, medical insurance.

Location: Bxl but mostly wfh

Sector/Industry: public sector

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yup.

We are (often) recruiting, send pm if interested. Masters of laws only.

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Age: 42

Education: Master in Computer Science + attempt at PhD

Years of experience: 16 (+3)

Function: Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 7900 (yearly income including expected bonus + car compensation, averaged out over 13.92 months)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): somewhere around 4000, not very sure due to bonus, ...

Extra legal-advantages: stock purchase program with discount, bonus always higher than expected, mealvouchers, ecocheques, pension plan, health insurance

Location: Central Belgium

Sector/Industry: Specialized Software Solutions

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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Age: 32

Education: Masters in Business

Years of experience: 9

Function: Something in private equity

Monthly salary (before taxes): 12.000 as independent (excl. bonuses), net monthly salary not so relevant given tax optimization

Location: Flanders

Sector/ Industry: Private equity

Are you managing/ content with your current income? Honestly it's hard not to be satisfied with this income, especially given the job is so much fun. I do work long hours, often also in weekends, need to be available at all times (challenging with holidays), so no hobbies on a weekly basis and most of my spare time goes to my significant other (less time for friends unfortunately). The grass will allways be greener somewhere, however I fully understand how lucky I am given a lot of people work the same hours for a lot less.

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Age: 34

Education: HS, unfinished university studies, 1.5 year programming 'bootcamp'.

Years of experience: 3

Function: Backend developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I live alone and am renting, so unfortunately no (rent indexation in September hurt a lot.) Also, overtime not paid but expected because I work for a "startup" (company 10+ years old.)

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level 2

Ask for a raise on your next evaluation

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I really wish I could.

Our entire team basically threatened to leave in September already; that's when I got an increase from 2100->2400, which translated to ~40 euros net IIRC? The same day my rent was increased by like 80 euros and my gas monthly by 50. Felt pretty bad.

We were told that this is it, no more raises.

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level 4

Cool, so they're exploiting you under the guise of "but we're a start-up!". Gotta ask yourself how much longer you're willing to keep that up, and be on the lookout for other jobs. You've got experience now.

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level 5

Exactly, look for something else and use that one as leverage.

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Yes, they absolutely are. Honestly, the stories I could tell. To paint you a picture, I'll just tell you real quick about my team (and my personal pride):

  • My personal pride: I managed to help a little in convincing the sysadmin to leave. Who worked there for 10 years, and made the same amount I did. He started as a developer btw, and without going into details, he was holding everything together on IT side.

  • My two teammates? 5+ years of experience, also do a hell of a lot more than the "junior developer" title they're given. I'd put them between medior and senior based on the depth of development experience, and breadth of everything around development, system administration, and more.

They make a negligible sum more than me. They're more 'safe' life wise because they don't live alone and don't rent, but it's still offensive how under-appreciated they are.

Gotta ask yourself how much longer you're willing to keep that up, and be on the lookout for other jobs

The problem is, 6 months ago I'd have said I'm suffering from severe burnout/my depression is back in full force. Now it's grown into...something else.

It's too late for me at this point to get out, or do anything; but I'm still hoping to convince the two guys I mentioned (who are also a lot younger, which helps them - especially in IT) to gtfo.

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level 6
· 3 days ago
80s child, not a Nazi.

You're 34, it's not too late for anything at all.

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BRB, getting my walking brace... Kidding. I guess it's relative. Too late to do most, if not all the things I wanted in life, but I'd rather not elaborate - don't want to have to break out a tiny violin. So let's just leave it at: Thank you for the comment, and the positivity, it's always appreciated. <3

(Also, your flair made me giggle; I still have an email address out there with an 88 in it that I probably won't use again anytime soon.)

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· 3 days ago
Belgium

Look for something else. Set up LinkedIn, open yourself for opportunities. Unless you are getting stock for working there, it makes no sense to work that hard to make someone else rich.

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Unless you are getting stock for working there

I once asked if given the rising energy prices I could WFH a little more. Because y'know, code monkey. I don't really need to be at the office. Nope, 0 flexibility, we even had to sign a contract for a year on which specific days we're home, which we're in office.

My colleague asked if they could pay part of the internet bill, when covid lockdowns started. Nope.

So that's a long-winded way of saying definitely not getting stock :'D

I have offers coming in from LinkedIn, and was recommended a company by my brother + his boss (Also sw developers), but I guess my company's doing something right; I'm so burnt out and exhausted I can't see any company wanting to hire me.

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level 6
· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Oh wow that sounds not like a good employer. I got a full wfh-kit, an allowance for electricity and all. I can work from home or in the office as i please. And we got 1250 hardship last month because of the crisis. Please start looking out for other employers. Doesn’t hurt to try right?

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Pm me if you’d like to switch jobs

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 24 years

Education: Master in Drug Development

Years of experience: 1 year

Function: Regulatory Affairs Officer

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 3700

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2500

Extra legal-advantages: € 140 mealvouchers/month, 13th month

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: Medical Devices

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Still live with my patents, so I am managing faily well.

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Belgian Fries

Age: 23

Education: TSO + extra BSO (watchmaking)

Years of experience: 0 (2 months working)

Function: Polyvalent operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4417

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2593 (varies)

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques €3.5 per day, cafetaria with low prices, km+fietsvergoeding, end of year + random bonuses, ploegenpremie (dont know if that counts as extralegal?)

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Pharmaceutical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very, living at my parents' and having a high net salary means I can invest a lot and buy machinery/tools to start (possibly) being a watchmaker in bijberoep

Edit: any tips for someone who just started working are welcome too!

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level 2

I'm guessing Pfizer looking at the maaltijdcheques hahaha

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Maximize earnings, minimize spendings, make a (financial) plan and invest the rest. Don’t forget to live but try not to live above your “stand”.

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Age: 29

Education: College dropout

Years of experience: 6.5

Function: Cloud consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800 (will be indexed next month)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2655

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card (benelux), hospitalization insurance, group insurance, 13th month, eco cheques, phone subscription

Location: Antwerp/Gent/Brussels (depending on project)

Sector/Industry: IT consultancy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, comfortable. Made it possible for me to prioritize my health after a recent accident and cancel a change in job that would have significantly increase my income(net would have gone to 3.2k)

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Age: 26

Education: Industrial Engineering Chemistry

Years of Experience: 1

Function: Engineer

Salary, before taxes: 4250

Salary, after taxes: 2950

Extra Legal Advantages: 400 euro's for transport, thirteenth month, production bonus, insurance (hospital), Bonuses for being physically active

Location: Netherlands, just across the border

Sector: Petrochemistry/plastics

Are you getting managing/content: I am very happy and lucky to have gotten into this job. It's a work hard, get paid good. I work easily 45ish hours + 2 hour drive every day (overhours unpaid), sometimes on call 24/7 a week (limited pay). But very inclusive, friendly place, lots of learning and growing opportunities, lots of variation

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Throwaway

Age: 29

Education: Master of Science IT engineering

Years of experience: 5

Function: Project Manager / Analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): invoice around 10-15k/month excl VAT

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): If i would pay out everything around 5k-6k net (with dividends, …) salary itself would be about 1.5k but supplemented with dividends.

Extra legal-advantages: Car on company, phone, internet, …

Location: Brussels region

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, very. Went from “normal” income around 2.5k net to this in about 2 years. I do not complain at all.

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level 1

GET YOUR DICKS OUT!

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Gym teacher?

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Op · 2 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Oh no it's penis inspection day

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· 3 days ago
Belgium

Age: 27

Education: Professional Bachelor

Years of experience: 4

Function: Account Manager Life Insurance

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.300,-

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.200,-

Extra legal-advantages: €8 meal vouchers/day, 250 EUR ecocheques/year, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, car + fuel card.

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: Insurance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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· 3 days ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 28

Education: Environmental management (masters @ULB)

Years of experience: 2

Function: Environmental consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2208 (I work 4/5)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, km vergoeding voor fiets (is meegeteld bij netto loon), insurance, pension fund, €300 every 3 years for new phone + subscription, laptop, work setup at home

Location: East Flanders (Gent)

Sector/Industry: Consultancy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I’m perfectly happy with what I get! I love in a cohousing so a lot of costs are shared.

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level 1
· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 30
Education: Nurse (Hbo5).
YOE: 7
Function: Thuisverpleging (bediende bij zelfstandige praktijk
Bruto: 4500-5000€.
Netto: 2800-3500€.
Advantages: none.
Location: province of antwerp.
Sector: thuisverpleging

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· 3 days ago
Belgian Fries

Age: 23

Education: Bachelors degree 'houttechnologie'

Years of experience: 1,5

Function: Junior project lead

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, group insurance, health insurance, bonuses around 4000 gross/year

Location: Ghent/Brussels

Sector/Industry: Construction

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Currently living at home so I cannot comment on this

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 35

Education: KSO

Years of experience: 7

Function: Surveyor liquid chemicals

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3299€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2190€

Extra legal-advantages: mealvouchers (8€/day), health insurance , 13th month

Location: Antwerp (port)

Sector/Industry: logistics/chemical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: With current inflation it's becoming tight on a single income but I can manage. Just have to be more careful these days

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Age: 22

Edcuation: Bachelor's Degree

Years of experience: 1

Function: Junior Marketeer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000€

Monthly salary (after taxes): 2050€

Extra-legal advantages: meal vouchers, unlimited home internet, pension fund, public transport and bicycle abonnement, phone and laptop, phone subscription, teleworking allowance of 50€, 13th month & holiday pay.

Location: Mechelen

Sector/industry: Telecom

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I consider myself very lucky to have found a job that I both love and that also pays well (considering my lack of experience). I manage to save up a considerable amount every month, even when renting a studio flat in Brussels.

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Age: 34

Education: Master

Years of experience: 10

Function: Account manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800

Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card +group insurrance +eco vouchers, smartphone + subscription + end of year bonus of 6000

Location: Kempen/Antwerp

Sector/Industry: PPE

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure

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Age: 27

Education: ASO science and maths

Years of experience: 3

Function: operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): about 4700-4800 depending on shifts

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2750 + yearly €100-1500 net cao-90 bonus

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, optional bike leasing, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance, ability to buy stocks at 20% discount, discount on meds produced by company, €250 ecocheques, yearly €75 sports and culture cheques

Location: Kempen

Sector/Industry: biotech pharmaceutical industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: it’s definitely a lot of money. But the salary growth is pretty much non existent. You can be the best employee and earn as much as the employee that does the bare minimum. The only way to evolve your salary is by climbing the ladder.

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Belgium

Age: 27

Education: Bachelors degree

Years of experience: 2.5

Function: Support in education

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000 (Feel free to check my salary here: Barema 301)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000

Extra legal-advantages: Phone and laptop. Bike allowance of around 75 net per month, depending on how many times I go to work by bike. Public transport to and from work is free.

Location: West Flanders

Sector/Industry: Education

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, but only by living frugally I manage

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Age: 26

Education: Bachelor in logistics + Master in Supply Chain Mangt, Master in Business Process Mngt

Years of experience: 1.5

Function: Supply Chain Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350

Extra legal-advantages: NMBS abo, group insurance, possibility for flex reward plan

Location: West-Vlaanderen

Sector/Industry: Manufacturing

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I still live at home, so I can save + invest (see r/BEFIRE)

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level 1

Age: 39

Education:

Years at high school and university, but did not graduate.

Years of experience: working since 2007 so 15 years, various fields

Function: operations coordinator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400

Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel, phone subscription and model, tablet, lunch, a lot of insurances, company small bonusses, a few fixed days extra holiday, ..

Location: port of antwerp

Sector/Industry: maritime

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I would.
currently extra expense is eating savings.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
West-Vlaanderen

Age: 37

Education: not important for my job. It's a typical immigrant job. But I have a master and a second bachelor.

Years of experience: less than a year in this job/area. Other experiences in other areas don't make a difference in the job too.

Salary: 15 per hour bruto. Hours depend on the month.

Location: West-Vlaanderen

Sector: Hotel (all around worker: breakfast, cleaning).

No extra legal advantages. Besides the mandatory ones per PC.

Am I content with my salary? Yes, it's over what everyone pays here in the city (minimum per PC, or 12.7) which is pretty darn rare.

Am I managing to live with it?

It would be impossible alone.

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Age: 30

Education: Bachelor Electro-Mechanics

Years of experience: 6

Function: PLC/SCADA Programmer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000 EUR

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000 EUR

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, mobile phone subscription

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Industrial Automation

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, but feels like I am underpaid?

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level 1
· 3 days ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 30

Education: bachelors degree

Years of experience: first year (with bachelors degree) studied 4 years and worked 5 years before that

Function: coördinator/leidinggevende

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3044,45

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2314,76

Extra legal-advantages: small amount of 'maaltijd- en ecocheques' and free 'pendelfiets'

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: Education

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: We are a double income, still renting, one kid household. I've been able to save money every month so far

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Age: 40

Education: master (music)

Years of experience: 17

Function: coordinator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3850

Monthly salary (after taxes): 2300

Extra-legal advantages: meal vouchers, public transport

Location: Antwerp

Sector/industry: culture

Are you managing/content with your current income: it's enough to live comfortably, but difficult to save money without tightening the belt. I have to make choices: either put €500 /month on a savings account and live very poorly, or (as I do now) travel, go to restaurants, buy books, get new clothes,... but don't save a lot. As a single man life is very expensive. €700 rent, €165 energy, €40 insurance, €80 pension saving, €65 gym, ~€150 tv/internet/streaming,... all need to be carried by myself, while families get to split these costs in half.

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Age: 33

Education: Master of science

Years of experience: 7

Function: Product Owner

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900

Extra legal-advantages: net allowance 150/month, maaltijdcheques 7 eur/day, company car + fuel card, 13th month, ecocheques 250/year, group insurance, hospitalization + dental insurance also for family, phone plan

Location: Hasselt

Sector/Industry: Healthcare IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, it’s more than OK. Live very comfortably, no money issues. Can save up to 1000 eur/month.

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Age: 32

Education: Associates degree (2 year degree) from America (Im American)

Years of Experience: 2.5

Function: IT Support

Monthly Salary (before taxes): 2800

Monthly Salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000

Extra legal advantages: maaltijdcheques (8 euro per day), fietsvergoeding (about 100 euro per month), hospital insurance, 17.5 compensation days!

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. 37.5 days of vacation is nuts to me. Idk what to do with them all.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 31

Education: bachelor's degree in journalism

Years of experience: 5

Function: copywriter

Monthly salary (before taxes): around 5.4k, including raise and small indexation that are going into effect next month so not exactly sure

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around 3k

Extra legal-advantages: hospitalisation and public transport. Phone and phone subscription. Work laptop and some WFH allowance. (I also work for something that is dear to my heart ❤️)

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: ngo

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Could earn more in finances but think it would make me depressed long-term

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· 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 31

Education: professional batchelor chemistry, Academic batchelor chemistry, master in industrial science: chemistry (industrial engineer)

Years of experience: 8

Function: Process engineer - specialisation in mechanical safety devices (overpressure protection)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5230

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2935

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers (9€) pension fund, health insurance for myself and the family,

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: oil & gas - chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, I have my own car, pay mortage and am able to save and provide for my family.

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Age: 34

Education: ASO

Years of experience: 13

Function: Sales

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2550

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, company car with fuel card (BE), company phone and phone plan, partially paid internet at home

Location: Company is located in Antwerp Province, area of responsability is BeNeLux

Sector/Industry: IT hardware distribution

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: managing yes, but I we just bought and renovated a house, so there's always a way to spend all the money. I've made it a point to save at least 100 euro's per month. IMPORTANT: We still have a fixed energy contract with the old prices until next summer. After that I don't count on saving anymore...

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 26

Education: ASO - Master in computer science

Years of experience: 3

Function: Software developer (frontend)

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4000/m

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3000/m + €150/m "kilometervergoeding" - note: mandatory "zorgverzekering" -€100/m

Extra legal-advantages: €260/m pensionfund (€100 own contribution + €150 company contribution) + hypotheekrenteaftrek around €1800/year (not company specific but just a benefit in the Netherlands) + free breakfast and lunch + free gym subscription + freedom of working from home as much as I like

Location: The Netherlands (grensarbeider)

Sector/Industry: Fintech

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: At first very satisfied with my salary but it seems I am underpaid for my level (we have a company salary scale which is public to everyone). Hoping to get an extra €400-€500 gross for my next performance review to get on level with the salary in the salary scale).

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Age: 32

Education: Secundaire and 1 relevant certificate

Years of experience: difficult to say, technically 1 year but boosted by another 2 in Customer service

Function: KYC specialist

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2059,22 (this includes both a Work from home and travel expenses due to working hybrid)

Extra legal-advantages: cheaper amex gold card, meal vouchers and eco cheques

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Financial

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Dunno what it would be since I live at home (single and lived/worked abroad before which didn't leave much for saving)

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Age: 46

Education: ASO (high school) and a professional course for my current job through VDAB (It-technician)

Years of experience: 19 (including periods looking for a job), started in 2003
Function: It-support, pc-migration, Pc-repair, Field technician

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1884

Extra legal-advantages: mealvouchers, ecovouchers, car that I had to return

Location: live in Antwerp, working mostly in Brussels

Sector/Industry: It-consultancy for other companies, as employee

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? No, I have to scrape by every month. No money left to save or travel @ all...

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Age:25

Education: Bachelors degree+ few formations

Years of experience: 1 year

Gross monthly revenue: 3200+-

Net income: 2200+-

Extra legal advantages: 13,14 months + annual bonuses

Sector: Chemicals

Location: Brussels

Level of contentment: I’m very content

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Age: 29

Education: Master Public administration & Management + Post grad. IT management

Years of experience: 4

Function: IT-portfolio manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2750 (€3550 including mobility budget)

Extra legal-advantages: Mobility budget (€810, net), Laptop, Phone + subscription, Meal vouchers, Insurance (group + health), yearly bonus, 13th month, cheaper restaurant, WFH

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Semi-government

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Age: 30

Education: TSO + Bachelor Applied Computer science from College

Years of experience: 7

Function: Senior Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 12,500 CAD (~8750 EUR)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 10000 CAD (~7000 EUR)

Extra legal-advantages: Paid internet at home + wellness spending of 2K CAD per year

Location: Remote (Based in Toronto)

Sector/Industry: Software

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I got pretty lucky considering my education background.

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Age: 30

Education: Law (general master+specialized)

YoE: 4-5

Function: Legal counsel

Monthly salary (gross): 4800 (will index in January)

Monthly salary (net): 2700ish

Extra legal advantages: company car with fuel card, 10% bonus (depending on company results, not individual), stock options, assurance groupe, healthcare insurance, homeworking net payment of 125, company pays for stuff I need as a counsel eg trainings, company visa card, meal cheques

Location: not Brussels

Industry: pharma

Content: Not sure whether I'm underpaid compared to peers in law firms with a comparable background as I refused to slave away at the bar, had to switch jobs a bit to get here. But as it is a high wage already, no complaints. I come from a blue collar background, so I was taught 'work first, ask later'. Looking around me in a corporate environment, I am not 100% sure that is the correct approach. But I like to go to work everyday as I feel appreciated by a lot of colleagues on the business & finance side.

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Age: 30

Education: ASO + SIRA

Years of experience: 5

Function: Procesoperator

Monthly salary (before taxes): €6453

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3480 (excluding yearly holiday pay +- €9000, and other bonuses)

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, group/hospitalisation/dental-insurance, bicycle lease, 34 hour week,...

Location: Port of Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Chemical Industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. It's a lot of money for a very chill job, with most of the time little to no stress.

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Age: 31

Education: TSO, uni dropout

Years of experience: 6

Function: Technical Consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3100

Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card, bicycle lease, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, smartphone + subscription, hospital insurance

Location: West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Certainly can't complain

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level 2

What kind of net additionls you have ? Thats not a lot of tax comparing brutto - netto

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· 3 days ago
Belgium

IP Reward probably?

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IP reward + wachtvergoeding

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level 1
· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Nice try, VVSE / FOD! 😉

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 24

Education: bachelor

Years of experience: 1

Function: DevOps engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2060

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, group insurance, ambulatory assurance, train free pass, smartphone + subscription, teleworking allowance, free bike for work travels, cafeteria plan that can also be transformed in a 14th month

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: NMBS&Co

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sucks to be paid less than your old job (netto) and lose all your salary every 3 months on abusive co-property fees.

But considering I was literally dying from boredom on my old job, yeah I'm content. And the pay raise when reaching the next barema should be at least worth 500€ brutto (because fuck cars) so not that bad.

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What was your previous job? Hard to imagine something so boring. Was it in IT as well?

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Premise: I was hired as a cloud consultant

Reality: I got baited and switch into a tester position for a networking device.

I had 0 interest in that mission and it wasn't really challenging for me.

I just spent half a year trying to break the damn thing repeating the same scripts after each sprint, reporting the same bugs that were present on another variant of the same product, and even sometimes basic things in the specs. Very few transferable skills could be learned on the mission as well.

The whole reason I kept staying there was for the salary and the client team being really nice to work with. To the point I agreed to stay until the product was shipped out.

But that's until a shitty manager (at the consultancy company) came in and I decided to leave earlier for anything but consultancy.

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Age : 25

Education : engineering (burgerlijk ingenieur/ingenieur civil)

Years of experience : 1

Function : data scientist

Monthly salary (before taxes) : 3250

Monthly salary (after taxes) : 2200

Extra legal advantages : cafetaria plan, meal+eco vouchers, insurance stuff, pension fund, insurances discounts, phone+internet plan, nmbs, various premiums during the year, 35+ days off

location : Brussels

Sector/Industry : insurances

Are you getting managing/content with your current income : yes, and I should have a raise this month + indexing in january. I can afford to save ~500€ while pretty much enjoying my life (partying, eating out, going on trips, hobbies)

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Age: 37

4 years anciënniteit

Secondary school teacher

Gross income: don't know. Have to check.

Net income: €2350 (4/5 ouderschapsverlof)

No extra benefits (aside from the 15 weeks of vacation)

Location: Antwerp

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level 1

Age: 38

Education: University 4 years

Years of experience: 3

Function: team leader (30 / 40 workers)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3400 €

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400

Extra legal-advantages: warrants - 5000€/ jaar bruto, 13de loon, Meal vouchers.

Location: Turnhout

Sector/Industry: Agriculture

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: not really... I think I'm underpaid.

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Age: 20

Education: TSO + Se-Ne-Se year

Years of experience: 1

Function: proces operator

Monthly salary before taxes: 4900

Monthly salary after taxes: 2900

Extra legal adventages: maaltijdchecks, all sort of insurances, discounts, bycicle lease,

Location: port of antwerp

Sector/industry: chemistry

I am content with my income, I work long and difficult hours but for a 20year old this is a good income

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level 2

Man I feel like the more i see these peeps in chemistry, the more I regret not choosing for chemistry for college.

Went for car technology instead.

💀

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level 2

Prepare yourself for a extra 1.5k taxes next year.

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Age:29

Education: Master Degree in Physics Engineering

Years of experience: 5

Function: Technical Operations Leader (now moved to Asia but I'll put my last Belgian Salary)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4340€ (63.5K€/year).

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): About 2700€

Extra legal-advantages: 8€/day meal vouchers, Eco-chèques, group insurance, pension, 10% Yearly Bonus and 10% yearly budget to dedicate to whatever I want. I had a company car but handed it back since I was working from home (was about 500€ gross + 120€ gross fuel card).

Location: Wallonia

Sector/Industry: Med Tech

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes and no. I'm happy with the fast progression from last year (roughly +20%) thanks to a new grade in my former position (+10%) in April then a promotion to this position (another +10%) in September. I was supposed to get the new grade more than a year ago and by then was quite underpaid. The company is known to pay roughly 20% below market, so this position is still below market. But I can't complain with the money that comes in my pocket at my age (everybody would like more, that's for sure).

I was badly underpaid for my last position given the amount of work I was doing (weekends, night shifts, travelling all the time, crazy hours, no personal life). However, this new position is very chill. I do my own schedule, no responsibilities, no power except advising. Nobody checks what I do (that both a pro & a con) so I have a loooot of freedom and can work from home. I can decide myself which of the company sites in the world I'll visit during the year (allowed 1 week / site / year). So all in all, now I'm pretty happy with this and since I'm in the bottom of the salary range for this position, it should progress slightly faster.

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Age: 29

Education: bachelor in nursing A1

Years of experience: 4

Function: nurse in a psychiatric institution

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300ish

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500ish

Extra legal-advantages: fietsvergoeding 140 euro, groepsverzekering

Location: vlaams brabant

Sector/Industry: health care

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: happy with the income. But nothing can make up for the mental strain and constant shift in your sleep unfortunately

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· 2 days ago
Brussels Old School

You people are all so young. It's scary.


Is someone making stats out of this? If not, any interest that I do it and post the results?

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usually the stats get posted in a few days. but you can always give it a swing yourself

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Please do!

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Antwerpen

And of course this thread is posted in the month that I'm unemployed 🙄

Age: 28

Education: Information Management & Security

Years of experience: Two years of work, unemployed for a month and a bit.

Function: Job seeking

Monthly salary (before taxes): A bit over €1300, all from your hard earned tax money 😘

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Do you need to pay taxes on unemployment benefits?

Extra legal-advantages: A lot of free time I guess.

Location: At home

Sector/Industry: None

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No, gib work pls

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
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Age: 29

Education: Bachelor of Engineering

Years of experience: Almost 4 years

Function: Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3350 Euros

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 2500 Euro

Extra legal-advantages: some pension scheme and extra insurances.

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Defense/Security

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

Not really, I feel i made a stupid decision to accept a job with lower salary than my previous one just for the sake of getting new experience in a different sector which i like, good thing is that money doesn't really motivate me and i don't care much about it as long i have money to cover my expenses it's fine, which is not the case now due to the high amount of standing hospital bills and extra bills i have to pay.I am a workaholic so i don't mind working all day, all time. The only advice i give to new people and to any one, is don't make your life depends on your work, this lifestyle sucks. For me it helped and was good in the beginning for a person like me who don't mind working 24/7 but life is not about that. you must be careful, your work won't give a shit if something happened to you. I have been through burnouts multiple times and in sometimes it required hospital admissions, I really don't want anybody to go to this deep, set boundaries for work, try to have a life and work is just part of it not the main motivator for it. I have spent almost 3 years working everyday including weekends, it's not really worth it and not health. that's why i recommend take it a bit easy specially for people who are just starting, I know when you start you have shit load of energy and want to prove yourself, but take it easy, if you're smart enough you can do many kind of things with little effort.And most important try to have social life beside work.I am just saying this because i think it might help somebody.I have spent my first 3 years in Belgium that's working all the time, The result was I did a great job of course and everybody at work is happy, but i have been through burnout twice, multiple hospitalizations, Destroyed mental health, no social life, no friends, lost contact with family. So work took everything from me. Now i am like a deadman walking. Please don't be like me.

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Age: 33

Education: Master Industrial siences - computer science

Years of experience: 10

Function: Senior front-end developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300 (before indexation next month)

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2700

Extra legal-advantages: Car + loading pass, Maaltijdcheques, work from home flat fee, phone subscription, hospital insurance

Location: Gent

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: As a family, (engaged, 2 kids) we are able to save +-500 a month, so pretty happy with that.

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· 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 30

Education: Bachelors in electrical engineering

Experience: 6y

Function: industrial testing engineer

Salary before tax: 4116

After tax: 2350

Benefits: car, fuel card, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, phone plan, insurance Location: Brussels

Sector: secure financial electronic transactions

Are you blabla: it’s okay. I do have to fidget with my finances quite a bit to fit in the mortgage, house remodelling and saving a few pennies here and there for a stress-free future.

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Age: 33

Education: Master & 2 'Master after masters'

Years of experience: Kinda depends how you look at it. 8 Since first diploma, 1 since finally finishing

Function: Speclalist physician

Monthly salary (before taxes): 15-20k as an independent

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): hard to say, I have a monthly income of 2900 and around 60-70k in dividends after taxes.

Extra legal-advantages: I suppose you could count my car, phone, laptop, ... as EL advantages.

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: Medical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Ofcourse, I'm not that delusional to not realize I'm in a very comfortabel position. Still getting used to this after earning between 2 an 3k a month during the previous years as a specialist in training.

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Interesting to see a specialist's salary. I always wondered how much you guy's make.

While I'm a bit jealous, I'm also kinda not, given what you have to do. I don't mind seeing gore in r/crazyfuckingvideos but seeing it in real life must be something else (I presume you had some form of residency?).

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As /u/Mr-FightToFIRE stated: interesting to see a specialist salary. Can I ask you to clarify how it's structured?

Based on what you post, I see a day rate of ~€750. You probably also need a special (expensive?) insurance etc.

Reason I ask: lots of us work in IT and having this rate is feasible (although not for everyone/as of day oen) with minimal level of expenses. So although high (but deserved), it's not that exuberant as I imagined it'd be.

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It's only his first year as a specialist. I imagine his rate will go up quite a bit as he gets more "cases" (or whatever it is you call new patients files).

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Yea it'll go up a bit next couple of years but not by insane amounts. Probably stabilizing around a 1000/day without counting indexation. I could earn quite a bit more but I'm one of the 'new generation' of doctors that tend to value a social life/family as well next to being a good professional. I work around 45-50hours a week.

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That’s what I’m wondering about. How does the future look like? What’s driving the potential? What costs are associated with it, as I can imagine them being higher than the typical IT person.

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See above replies :-) Without counting indexation I'll probably end up in the 200-250k range a year. In general costs are already deducted by the hospital so the only real costs are what every other independent has (car, insurance 1000/year/....)

Income varies wildly between specialization and I don't always make myself popular with some friends when I tell them they earn a rediculous income. Radiologists easily make 600k/year. I'd say my income is somewhere between the p25 and 50 for a specialist, although it's not really a normal distribution, more like a 'lognormal' one with a large tail with very high incomes and a very large cluster around 15-25k/month.

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That seems pretty accurate at this point as a day rate. Insurance is not that crazy for my specialty but can be pretty wild for some others but those tend to earn a the most as well so it more than compensates.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

40 y/o

Vlerick/AMS

Approx 20 years experience

Leadership

€9.000 gross (payroll) (this x13,92)

€4.650 net

All usual perks you’d imagine. Bonus of €25k gross

Brussels

Getting by, obviously. Wife earning an above average salary as well so we don’t complain. However, lots of long days, high stress so certainly not enjoyable for everyone. limited spare time. Need a lot of support (cleaning, laundry, kids after school, etc). Slightly frustrated by how much taxes I pay (probably around €80k/year) and see how bad our country is managed. Looking forward to 10-12% indexation, but tbh, it’s a mess to explain this to my foreign based HQ and makes no sense above a certain threshold. But I’m not complaining from a personal perspective.

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Do you feel business school is an added value in the Belgian market?

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I don’t think it helped me to land this opportunity. Ability, willingness to take on more responsibilities, investment on doing interesting stuff instead of focusing on short term benefits, positive & can do mentality paid off.

The first 12 years of my career were concentrated on building where I landed after.

Management schools are interesting and fun, but not sure about the value add. I often see students or alumni with (too) high expectations. You’re still going to have to prove yourself, regardless of pedigree.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Throwaway, but want to contribute to the statistics this time around.

Age: 35

Education: professional bachelor

Years of experience: 11

Function: Software engineer / Devops

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800 euro

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400 euro

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers 8 euro/piece, medical insurance, company car with limited tanking card, yearly bonus based on company KPI's, WFH

Location: West-Vlaanderen

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age:44

Education:TSO (TIW)

Years of experience:23

Function:Problem Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes):5762

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):3200 (+500 bonus every quarter)

Extra legal-advantages:Laptop/phone/internet

Location:Brussels

Sector/Industry:Consultancy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:Nope

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Age: 30

Education: Master in nanotechnologie & master in management

Years of experience: 5

Function: Application engineer for image sensors

Monthly Salary (before taxes): 4600

Monthly Salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2550 + end year performance bonus

Extra legal advantage: company car (no tank card), hospital insurance for me and my family, pension fund, cellphone and provider (which I don't take because 1 crappy phone and 2 orange as a provider... With less Gb than I need)

Location: Mechelen

Sector/Industry: semiconductors which is in the metal working industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income: just bought a house and I typically don't cook and get food delivered so it has been a little tight but yes I manage and I have space to cut savings and I do manage to save some money

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 27

Education: Tso + 1 year of SIRA this is a project specially created for people who want to reschool themselves into a process operator

Years of experience: 6.5

Function: Process operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): €6800 bruto for 20 days

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3450 netto base (up to €5k depending on OT)

Extra legal-advantages:

Performance bonus up to +€2k net yearly. Kind of a pensionplan. Maaltijd-,eco-,giftcheques. Full DKV for family.
Dental and eye plan. Cafeteriaplan:. can be used for various things up to 15% of bruto wage to lease a car (i have audi a3) or cheaper internet, bike, card for gas for car.

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Petrochemical, polymer industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

Yes overall it’s good. Job can be exhausting due to shifts 7/7/7 (enough vacation days makes this okay) and often there is a big responsibility. Took me 6 years to really learn the 4 areas of the plant, now its less stressy.

With overtime, salary can go from 0 to €1500 netto extra when really going for it. This means 4 hours before early shift, being called on my day off or 4 hours extra after nightshift etc,…

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 25

Education: Bachelor degree

Years of experience: 2

Function: Customer care manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, maaltijd cheques (140)

Location: Belgium

Sector/Industry: Commerce

Am i happy?: I have no clue, i feel like i deserve a higher wage for the work i put in but i'm also very unfamiliair with what would be a good wage in belgium. I won't be happy happy until i net 3K+

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level 2
· 3 days ago
Vlaams-Brabant

You’re 25. A lot of people would be very happy with your paycheque.

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level 3

Yes,
I've been very lucky and got a lot of chances to promote with my current employee. For sure am grateful! Just not yet where i want to be

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level 1

Age: 24

Education: bachelor Agro

Years of experience: 3

Function: Quality assurance

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, company car, fuel card, insurance, a bonus +- 500 net/year

Location: West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Food

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: Bachelor degree in electronics engineering

Years of experience: 5 1/2

Function: V&V engineer in railway sector

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3050€ ( gross salary with expat reduced taxation + 150€ net + 23€ x working day on-site, usually 12/14 per month ) on top of this I get meal vouchers and eco cheques

Extra legal-advantages: standard insurances

Location: Charleroi

Sector/Industry: Railway

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Definitely quite happy with the salary, unfortunately expat taxation will end at start of 2024 so probably I’ll be moving somewhere else …

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level 2

Expat reduced taxation? How's that?

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level 3

This article explain a bit the new system https://www.bdo.be/nl-be/nieuws/2022/important-amendments-of-the-special-tax-regime-for-expatriates-in-belgium-upda

Me I’m still benefitting from the “old” system which had no time limit, but now it will end for me at end of 2023. The way it works is that a part of your gross salary remains tax free, the specific amount depends on a whole lot of specific conditions in my case it’s around 700€. This of course helps for multiple reasons: one that of course you don’t pay tax on that part or your salary, second that quite often it allows you to remain on a lower tax bracket than what you should

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level 4

Thanks.

Does this work if you work as a self employed? For example a dentist that works for a percentage, but has created his own company and now is an employee of himself?

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level 5

I’m not an expert on the legislation but I don’t think it works for self-employed workers

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level 3

Only works if you stay with your first contractor btw

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True, forgot to mention *

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· 3 days ago
Limburg

Age: 28

Education: Middelbaar Technisch

Years of experience: 10

Function: Mechanic in a heavy duty garage

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.328€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.190€

Extra legal-advantages: 180€ maaltijdcheques, pension saving by my employer, ziekteverzekering by my employer

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Transport

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: both my wife and i earn around 2k a month. We pay off the house and a few other things and save quite a lot every month.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 27

Education: Bachelor degree in computer science, network orientation.

Years of experience: 3.5

Function: My main function is Salesforce developer, I'm still doing other projects and IT support on the side when needed.

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2906

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1931

Extra legal-advantages: Work laptop, phone, company car + fuel card, ticket repas (6.5€ per worked days), hospitalisation insurance

Location: Sprimont

Sector/Industry: Glass transformation industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Now that I have the company car and the fuel card, I can manage and still save money by the end of the month, otherwise it was getting tight. Now I'm stable and consider myself lucky, so I'm not complaining.

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level 1
· 3 days ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Age: 34

Years of experience: 12

Education: bachelor in computer science

Function: system engineer

Income before taxes: 3700

After taxes: 2500

Extras: company car, fuel card, meal vouchers, cell phone subscription.

Location: flanders/Brussels

Sector: retail

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: Master Renewable Energy

Years of experience: 4

Function: Offshore Service Technician

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~ 6000 (on average and also depending on weather, etc..)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~ 3000

Extra legal-advantages: eco cheques, 13de maand, gsm abo.

Location: Oostende

Sector/Industry: Electrical (/Offshore)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes and as a bonus I have time to travel because of a 2 week rotation.

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level 1

38

5th grade beroeps

In my current function, 5 months (+ 4 months internship)

Handyman

2700-2800 (depending on the month)

A bit under €2000

Meal vouchers (maaltijdcheques)

Limburg

Elderly care

Yes

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Age: 33

Education: BSO highschool

Years of experience: 4 months current job

Function: Funeral planner

Monthly before taxes: 3100 brut

Location: Limburg Flanders

Monthly after taxes (including additional salary): 2100 euro + 130 euro maaltijdcheques + being on call/weekends +250-450 euro

Extra legal advantages: company laptop and cellphone abonnement, public transport paid 100%, cafeteria plan, DKV hospital insurance, ecocheques.

Sector/Industry: Funeral industry

Are you managing/content with current income?: I left a career as a Storemanager to start in an entirely new sector from scratch. I earn a lot less now because I used to earn commission based but I couldn’t be happier.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 25

Education: Masters in Biology

Years of experience: 2

Function: Analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes):3250

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuelcard, maaltijd cheques 8/day, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, 13th month, ecocheque 120 euros

Location:

Sector/Industry: Pharma

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah, I can still save a bit after expenses and hobbies

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 29

Education: Bachelor (music)

Years of experience: In this function 3 months, in logistics 5 years and 1 year irrelevant experience (music store and dossierbeheerder loans for a bank)

Function: Operations Coordinator (however assistant operations manager fit better imho)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.320€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-2.300€

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers (8€/day), group insurance, health insurance

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Breakbulk / Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes but it's getting harder as a single person, loan is 630€/month, syndicus another 310€ (just got raised), another 86€ for phone/tv/internet, 35€ for electricity.


However I will be returning to my job at a container terminal early next year.

This means i will be getting shift compensation, weekend compensation.

Working 9-5 isn't my thing after all.

Will also be getting back my 150l card for diesel/benzine.

With the index I will be getting +-3650€ brut and +-2.550€ net

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level 2

How on earth do you get 2300 net with only 3300 gross? I also have 2300 net but my gross is 3850... And next indexation I'll maybe get €20 net extra, not €300....

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level 3

I have no idea how they do the brut/net calculation. But I've always got money back from my taxes so I assume everything is being done correctly.

For the index I can only hope my net gets raised somewhat., don't think it will be 10% as the index, but one can only hope.

Will normally also be starting as zelfstandige in bijberoep in music, so hopefully that can add some extra money's in the bank, altho they will be spent on music stuff/phone/laptop when needed.

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level 4

Ah ok, you have the "once a year" index. Mine is 2% but several times this year, next one now in December.

I usually get about 280 back, which corresponds with my pension saving plan. So my job's gross-net calculation is also correct lol

Anyway, you're not the only one with this small gross/net difference so I'm not sure where my salary goes wrong...

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level 5

Do you have kosten eigen aan de werkgever?

Because this adds 125€/month net for me.

It's indeed odd to see the big differences between bruto/netto for some.

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Age: 27

Education: 27

Function: Software consultant & college teacher (parttime)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3284.5 & ???

Monthly salary (after taxes): 2396.31 & 1343

Extra legal-advantages: car, IP ruling, phone bill, medical insurance, laptop, FIP, meal vouchers, eco vouchers

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes


PS the bruto pay for my college teacher position is somewhere in the paperworks but I couldn't immediately find it, sorry!

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· 3 days ago
Thicc thigh gang

Age: 31

Education: Bachelor social work

Years of experience: 3

Function: In illness at the moment

Monthly salary (before taxes): Can't see the bruto

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Varies around 1500 now

Extra legal-advantages: Social tariff, cheaper tickets public transport, verhoogde tegemoetkoming, cheaper enrollment fee for university, Gemeentelijke huurpremie since I'm on the social housing list for about 7 years now.

Location: East-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Used to be social sector, now studying again

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: It can be rough since I spend about 70 euro/m on medication for my dog. Saving up isn't really possible and I hope I don't have unexpected costs. But it's counting money if I want to go out with friends.

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level 1

Age: 24

Education: Master with postgraduate in design

Years of experience: 0.5

Function: Big 4 consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2350

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000

Extra legal-advantages: Companycar, eco and meal vouchers, home work allowance, carwash allowance, phone with subscription, laptop

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Consulting

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: still living at home so I’m able to save everything. Ask me again if I’m moving alone haha. Overal happy with what I earn. Think its more then most of my classmates make

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level 1

Age: 28

Education: Manama Political Sciences

Years of experience: 2

Function: Communication Officer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2550

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900

Extra legal-advantages: public transportation

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Policy/politics

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level 1
· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 26

Education: Bachelor Graphic Digital Media

Years of experience: 1

Function: Graphic Designer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2385

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850

Extra legal-advantages: ecocheques and foodcheques

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Pet Industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income: yes

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level 1

Age: 33

Education: BSO (kantoor)

Years of experience: 12

Function: notarieel bediende/dossierbeheerder

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 3.750

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2.280 for a 4/5th position (no additional salary)

Extra-legal advantages: none

Location: East-Flanders

Sector: notary

Are you getting managing/content with your current income: yes, very much so! I changed employers 4y ago to be closer to home and have a better work-life balance as a young mother. On top of that we (me and my husband) have reached a point where we can afford living in a financially unstable time.

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Age: 26

Education: Engineering master’s degree

Years of experience: 3

Function: Consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 6800

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**3900 + c. 1000 from annual bonus

Extra legal-advantages: Car, Hospitalisatie

Location: Vlaams-Brabant

Sector/Industry: Consulting

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes! Crazy salary for my age, however the job at times can be tough - both stress levels and working hours. At some point, will leave the crazy lifestyle and that will highly likely involve a paycut

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level 2

Damn! Are you working for McKinsey or Bain or something?

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Yep, one of the strategy consulting firms indeed 🙂 Can highly recommend for a few years, though not for a long-term career

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What's your salary? 2022 edition

It's been an economically tumultuous year so I'm sure there's a lot to discuss. You guys know the drill by now, but I added an extra questions seeing considering the situation many of us seem to be in.

Age: 30

Education: Highschool and unrelated VDAB/Syntra certs

Years of experience: 1 in this function

Function: Secondline tech support + server and database maintenance

Monthly salary (before taxes): about 2600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): about 1900

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, pension fund, hospital care for me and family, Alan insurance (1k additional medical insurance yearly for me and family) , 150 monthly "expenses", laptop for home use

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure. I think you suck at budgeting if this wouldn't be enough in my area.

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Age: 32

Education: Professional bachelor IT

Years of experience: 10

Function: DevOps engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): I pay myself €3000 gross

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): about €10K/m if I spread the lump sums each year over 12 month. 1400 is royalties.

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, company car, company expenses such as health, civil liability, and other insurances, international trainings, and rent from company.

Location: Belgium

Sector/Industry: IT, mainly finance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: First 6 months were "difficult".

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level 1

Age: 27

Education: Master of Science in engineering sciences

Years of experience: 5

Function: Lead QA/QC engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4250

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-2650

Extra legal-advantages: company car, gas card, 13th and 14th month, yearly bonus of +-6000€ bruto, meal vouchers, internet at home, eco cheques, 10€ net per day, "representatiekosten"

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: Nuclear

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age: 46

Education: Bachelor

Years of experience: 10+

Function: planner, sales, technical support

Monthly salary before taxes: 3300 euro

Monthly salary after taxes: 2150 euros

Extra legal advantages: maaltijdcheques, groepsverzekering, cell phone + abo, company bike, company car(EV), 13de maand, vakantiegeld, ecocheques

Location: Limburg

Sector: HVAC

Are you content with your current income: yes

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level 1

Age: 24

Education: bachelor electromechanical engineering

Years of experience: 2

Function: maintenance technician (5-shifts)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900

Extra legal-advantages: meal voucher, eco voucher, hospitalisation insurance, extra insurance, bike lease

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: heavy paper industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Cant complain. Making a lot more than my previous job.

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Age: 31

Education: ASO + Bachelor Office Management

Years of experience: 7

Function: SOP and HSE Officer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, benefits@work, hospitalisation, group insurance, option for bike leasing, thuiswerkvergoeding €50/maand, cadeaucheque €40/jaar, cao90 €65/jaar, STI, LTI

Location: between Gent, Brussels and Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Pharma

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, very happy now. Last year I was earning 2800 before taxes for doing more than 60 hours a week. I started asking for a raise, after many MANY conversations, I got a raise. I also work in pharma so we get all the indexations, which explains the huge bump in salary. My hours a week went down a little plus we have a lot of benefits so I'm currently very happy.

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· 3 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 32

Education: TSO - multimediatechnieken

Years of experience: 10

Function: Helpdesk Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3475

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2466

Extra legal-advantages: car and gas card (didn’t take it), maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, bonus, 0,23c a km bicycle reimbursement, iPhone + mobile plan, laptop, cafetariaplan

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: IT/insurance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, but more is always welcome

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Age: 33

Education: Bachelor of Law

Years of experience: 8

Function: IT Business Analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4230€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2600€

Extra legal-advantages: meal cheques

Location: Gent

Sector/Industry: Port Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm feeling the impact of inflation - I could easily save 200-300 euros a month 2 years ago but now I'm living paycheck to paycheck again. Which is baffling to me since I know a lot of people make do with less.

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Age: 43

Education: Master of Laws

Years of experience: 19

Function: Policy Advisor

Monthly salary (before taxes): 10.600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 5.300

Extra legal-advantages: Public transport subscription, cell phone subscription.

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Politics/Government

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am somewhat lucky due to a number of promotions and seniority in my current role.

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· 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 27

Education: Bachelor Computer Sciences

Years of experience: 3

Function: Senior Developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): €7.000 (in revenue - self-employed)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €4.000 (x12 - no holiday pay/EoY bonus)

Extra legal-advantages: €200 meal vouchers, €30 mobile plan, laptop and some business purchases here & there for office. No car.

Location: 100% remote for US firm

Sector/Industry: Web Development

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, since I still live at home, but otherwise I would too obviously. Looking to increase it though since what I earn is very modest for a Belgian freelance developer.

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level 2

This is without a BV?

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No, with a BV. I've updated to indicate the 7k gross is revenue; not salary.

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Age: 27

Education: Bachelor in finance

Years of experience: 4,5

Function: Client advisor at one of the 4 big banks

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: Pension Fund, Meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance

Location: East-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Finance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age: 30

Education: High school (ASO) + HBO Networkmanagement

Years of experience: 4

Function: It support consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900

Extra legal-advantages: car (VW ID4), quick charger installed at my house by my company and paid for by them (also electricity cost), 130 euro maaltijdcheques per month, health insurance, pension fund, 50% of internet bill paid, company laptop and mobile subscription

Location: My company is located in Antwerp, but I work for a customer in Maastricht

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:Yes for managing, content not really with the way prices are evolving

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Age: 28

Education: Bachelor

Years of experience: 4

Function: Quality Engineer - automotive

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2555

Extra legal-advantages: company car (50.000km/year, fuel card (europ), hospitalization insurance, group insurance, 13th month, meao cheques, phone subscription

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Automotive

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: 🌚🌝

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Age: 35

Education: TSO accountancy/IT

Years of experience: 14

Function: managing partner

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.833,33

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3.384,95 (also deducting sociale lasten of 1.036,22/month)

Extra legal-advantages: car, car charge card, phone, phone sub, internet, hospi insurance, meal vouchers

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: communications/media/marketing

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes

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Age: 27

Education: Business management: accounting and taxes (Professional Bachelor)

Years of experience: 4

Function: accountant (normal, no ITAA title)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2240

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1750

Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuel card, 13th month, Meal vouchers

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Small accounting firm

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
I still live at home. Otherwise it would be hard.
Nope, should be getting a decent raise at the end of the year. If not, I'll be looking for a new adventure.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 39

Education: Master Economics

Years of experience: 10+

Function: Lead Data Scientist

Monthly salary (before taxes): between 15000 and 18000 euro depending on bonus

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 10000 to 11700 depending on bonus

Extra legal-advantages: full medical insurance, fitness paid, meals at work, signing bonus of 35000 net (recently switched)

Location: Latam, in a country at 60% the living cost of belgium

Sector/Industry: fintech

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: very happy, work a shitton of hours during the week but never thought i d make this much of money

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Age: 23

Education: Master in Business Administration

Years of experience: 10 mo.

Function: Data Analyst / BI Developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2750

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~2000

Extra legal-advantages: Laptop, Phone, Hospitalization Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Cycling compensation

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Still live at home, but wage could be more, could be less. Got a lot of freedom and good hours so overall quite happy.

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Age: 31

Education: Bachelor degree logistics management

Years of experience: 7

Function: Port manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, Ecocheques, Company car, fuel card, group insurance, hospitalization plan, 13th month, mobile phone+plan

Location: West Flanders

Sector/Industry: Logistics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 28

Education: Bachelor interior & design

Years of experience: 6-7 years

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2200€

Monthly salary (after taxes): 1885€

Extra legal advantages: eco cheques, maaltijd cheques, fuel card 100€, 100€ extra

Location: Limburg

Sector/industry: interior, sales/designer

Are you getting managing?: Yes, i guess. I will get a raise in january(+250bruto), extra on the indexing. I don't really know what others earn in my industry

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 28

Education: Professional bachelor IT

Years of experience: 5

Function: Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3770

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2920

Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuel card (EU), mobile + plan, hospitalisation insurance, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, laptop

Location: Belgium

Sector/Industry: IT, FinTech

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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· 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 36
Education: MSc in Life Science
Years of experience: +/- 10
Function: R&D Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): +/- €5.500,00
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- €3.100,00
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, phone + laptop, annual bonus (variable, depending on the profit we made, was €800 last year)
Location: Province Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, nothing to complain.

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: A2 electrical technician

Years of experience: 8

Function: automation technician

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3850

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2300 - 2700 depends how many times they call me during my 6 weekly stand-by week

Extra legal-advantages: yearly safety bonus net 1000, share of profit net +-1000, 13th month net 1500. 3 yearly phone and laptop. Meal vouchers 150 per month.

Location: Kempen

Sector/Industry: metallurgie

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age: 28

Education: Master industrial sciences - electromechanics

Years of experience: 3

Function: commisioning/maintainance on medium voltage (1 - 36 kV) protection relays

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2200. It's more if overtime had to be done. (Thank god for paid overtime)

Extra legal-advantages: company car + fuel card, meal and eco vouchers, 13th month, group and hospital insurance, net allowance 100 eur (in my net pay)

Location: Belgium, occasionally neighboring countries, rearly Europe. I travel to clients on site.

Sector/Industry: industrial electricity

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, more is always welcome though.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 33

Education: Master of Computer Science

Experience: 9 years

Function: IT Specialist

Monthly Salary (before taxes): 4700

Monthly Salary (after taxes + bonus + overhours + watch duty): 3750 average

Extra legal-advantages: leasing car, fuel card, meal vouchers, ecological vouchers, sport and culture vouchers, iphone, home internet, gsm subscription, gift card/party etc.

Location: Brussels

Sector: Finance-IT

Happy with income: yes but it could be better for this hard work. My wife also works so we are doing quite fine. We also have around 1K rent income abroad.

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 26

Education: Master of Science in engineering (Burgerlijk ingenieur), electromechanical

Years of experience: 1 year

Function: Engineer in the office, planning and pricing

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2200

Extra legal-advantages: Company car with fuel, 13th month, possible bonuses, phone with subscription, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance etc.

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: Dredging

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, changed jobs and got a €700 gross since last year.

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· 3 days ago
Limburg

Age: 28

Education: Master Industrial Engineering

Years of experience: 5

Function: Process & Validation Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2600

Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card EU, meal vouchers, phone, health insurance, bonus

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Pharma

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

American here, just recently came back from a week in Brussels last month - are these amounts really enough to live on?

Salaries seem quite low compared to costs. I was staying in the Grand Place, however, so perhaps I was simply paying the tourist prices and local places are much cheaper.

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Op · 2 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Most people in this thread shouldn’t have any issues getting around and this seems to be supported by their comments below. As for me I pay about 400€ rent (tho that’s worth roommates, it used to be 700€ when I was living alone) including utility bills, which leaves me with more or less 1700€/month to do whatever with. I do still need to eat with that and a Spotify subscription also costs 10€ but I don’t have many other recurring costs. Remember that we don’t have pay through the nose to see a doctor, no need to save up for that.

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Oh, that's good to hear at least! I was thinking rents were much higher. Sorry for derailing, I really was just shocked, but it doesn't seem to be quite what I was thinking.

Everyone I met and talked to was so kind even when my English/Spanish/Italian didn't exactly translate with the French/Dutch/German!

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Op · 2 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Honestly everything seems to be getting more expensive, including/especially rent, but it’s still way better than our neighbouring countries as far as I’m aware.

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Only worked 3 weeks last month but here i go

Age: 25

Education:/

Years of experience: 7

Function: welder

Before tax: €4.630,49

After: €2.700,30

Extras: only missing a company car

Loc: on and offshore, mostly Europe

Sector: steel construction

Am i managing? Yes

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: hoge school

Years of experience: 6

Function: Safety advisor level 1

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3900euro

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around 2900 en 3000euro ( 2400 + (400 to 600) net bonus)

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, group insurance, fuel card and company car 60k incl btw, laptop, mobile phone, hospitalization insurance, 13th month, 36 days vacation, eco cheques,

Location: Brussels but 99% of the time work from home ans directly to clients

Sector/Industry: insurances

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Atm pretty much content but this salary is all thanks to "job hopping". I could get more but currently there is no need.

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level 1

Age: 27

Education: Masters degree in history and law

Years of experience: 1,5

Function: Lawyer (trainee)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): no idea, got to check that with my accountant at the end of the year

Extra legal-advantages: phone + abonnement

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Family law/ Family property law

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: it’s very different from studying and stressful though satisfying. I can see myself doing this for the foreseeable future + I can expect an increase in position and income also in the near future

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 30

Education: TSO toerisme school

Years of experience: 9

Function: key account manager IT reseller

Monthly salary (before taxes): €2800+1070 (bonus)+ €450(international bonus)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2560 (incl. Monthly and Quarterly bonus)

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, ecocheques, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, laptop, company car.

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: yes

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age:23

Education:TSO (high school)

Years of experience: total 5years current job 7 months

Function: Proces operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 6047.33

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3246.47

Extra legal-advantages: Pension fund, public transport and bicycle lease, hospitalisation insurance, guarenteed income insurance, Maattijdcheques

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes I am.

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level 1

Age: 31 Education : Bachelors in Finance & certification in accounting

Years of experience: 10

Function: Finance

Monthly salary (before taxes): 6200

Monthly (after tax) : 3500

Extra-legal advantages : Insurances, car , net allowance

Location: Brussels

Sector: Chemical

Are you content: Company is currently downsizing and I don’t know yet if I’m on the chopping block, grateful to have this job at the moment

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 30

Education: A2

Years of experience: 11 (6 at current job)

Function: process operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4.000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.500

Extra legal-advantages: €8 meal vouchers/day, pension plan, hospitalization insurance, 13th month (end of Year bonus), 32 vacation days + additional day for every 4 years of seniority

Location: Oudenaarde

Sector/Industry: Chemical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very much so, for only having finished high school i really cant complain

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Age: 26

Education: Bachelor

Years of experience: 3.5y

Function: Production planner

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100 (shift bonus included)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 2500

Extra legal-advantages: Maaltijdcheques, yearly bonus, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 31

Education: Bachelor electro-mechanics/automation

Years of experience: 8

Function: Robotics Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2500

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, fuel card, phone plan, eco cheques, group insurance, CAO90 (colletive bonus)

Location: Halle

Sector/Industry: Automation

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes but as I am getting kids, a pay raise is appreciated 🙃.

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Age: 27

Education: Master in Engineering

Years of experience: 3

Function: Supply Chain Project Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): €5100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2930 - I get 20 eur internet allowance and that’s it besides my brutto

Extra legal-advantages: bonus , mobile phone, ambulatory and hospitalization insurance (no car)

Location: Brussels but working full remote

Sector/Industry: Pharma

Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: so far it’s okay, started half a year go, but would like to grow within the company and hopefully raise my salary (also looking forward to get a car once I get promoted to the next level - expected within 1-2 years of being in the position)

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Age:32

Education: Bachelor

Years of experience: 10

Function: Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3400

Extra legal-advantages: Meal cheques, eco cheques, 12 extra holidays, end of the year premium

Location: Antwerp Region (not the city)

Sector/Industry: Technology

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: thankful yes, content no.

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level 1

Age: 24

Education: ASO science and mathematics

Years of experience: 4 (current job 2 years)

Function: solution sales (kinda like an account manager)

Monthly salary before taxes €3000

Monthly salary after taxes € 2100

Extra legal advantages: gross yearly bonus of between 10 and 30% of my yearly gross income (depends on how close to or how far I overshot my target), company car, fuel, phone subscription, internet + tv, meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance

Location: Antwerp

Sector/industry: IT sales

Are you getting managing/ content with your content with your current income: I can’t complain, I bought my own place with this salary and still have some saving and spending money at the end of the month. With the price increases life has gotten more expensive so I’m waiting for that indexation on my salary

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 33

Education: high school drop-out

Years of experience: 15

Function: Operator

Monthly salary before taxes: 3711

Monthly salary after taxes: 2475

Location: oost-vlaanderen, Oudenaarde

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Considering my lack of education i'm very happy with my income. I can also choose my own hours and I work alone.

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Age: 33

Education: Bachelor in Economics, part qualified accountant

Years of experience: 8

Function: Supply Chain strategy

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~€8,000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~3,900

Extra legal-advantages: Luncheon vouchers, car, hospitalization insurance, 13th month, 20% bonus, 14th month, representation allowance, ~€10k a year in shares

Location: Wavre

Sector/Industry: Pharma

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very happy with the income given that I have a healthy work/life balance but don’t have the motivation to push for promotion as the amount of extra work involved isn’t worth it for the ~€5k a year you’d actually see in your bank

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Age:25

Education :A2

Years of experience: 1,5

Function: servicedesk admin

Monthly salery (before tax): 3000

Monthly salery (after tax) 2000

Extra legal benefits: hospitalisation, nmbs abonnement. Fiets vergoeding

Location: Ghent

Sector: bio chemical par207

Are you getting/managing/content with current income ?

Yes for the most part most of my pay goes to paying of our mortgage for the house.

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· 2 days ago
Antwerpen

14 years of relevant experience here and I earn only € 200 bruto more.Hooray for Healthcare / Educational sector i guess /s

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Age: 32

Education: PhD

Years of experience: 5 years post-PhD

Function: Medical Affairs

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.300 (currently working at 90%, otherwise would be at 5986)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4.400/month on average over laat 12 months. This includes bonuses, mealvouchers, 13th and 14th month, etc.

Extra legal-advantages: €8 7,56 meal vouchers/day, 250€ ecocheques/year, 70€ cadraucheques/year, 100€ sportscheques/year, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, car + fuel card, 13th/14th month, base yearly bonus at 18% of yearly gross salary

Location: Waver

Sector/Industry: Pharma

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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What's your salary? 2022 edition

Age: 30

Education: bachelors

Years of experience: 7

Function: automation engineer / infra engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2600 ( + 7k net y.o.y nrrv+wnp+bonus)

Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuel card (600 br cost), daily meal vouchers

Location: remote + mechelen

Sector/Industry: banking

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, i think i should get more, but this is because i am in an environment of old people all getting a lot more than me and doing a lot less.

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level 1
· 2 days ago
Local furry, don't feed him

Age: 32

Education: Bachelor Informatica (Hogeschool)

Years of experience: 8 year with my current employer + 2 with a previous.

Function: IT Consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100 (starting January)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Approx. 3000.

Extra legal-advantages: (Electric) car + "tankkaart", internet and phone bill payed for by employer, ecocheques, "fietsvergoeding", hospital insure for my whole family, pension plan, "cafetariaplan" which I use to lease a bicycle, Intellectual Property (which will probably dissappear next year).

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: IT (System and Network administration)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes.

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**Age: 29

**Education: ASO

**Years of experience: 6,5

**Function: Inspecteur van Politie

**Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100 ( without weekends, nights, extra hours)

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800 basic + weekends, nights, extra hours.. +/- 500 ( can go up to 1000 but also as low as 100) = 3300 on average

**Extra legal-advantages: Free train and public transport in Brussels

**Location: Brussels

**Sector/Industry: Public sector

**Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, but still looking for an extra job or a side income. As we have quite a lot of free time due to doing shift of 10h.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
E.U.

Age: 38

Education: Highschool (ASO). Dropped out of higher education. Good thing, too. I would have made a horrible teacher.

Years of experience: 15 (in this sector & industry, not for my current company)

Function: RBI & Inspection engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~ €3760,00

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~ €2380,00 + €7,00/day worked

Extra legal-advantages: company car + petrol card, cafeteria plan, laptop, phone, 13th month, working from home, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization insurance.

Location: head offfice in Vlaams-Brabant, but working for clients in the Benelux.

Sector/Industry: (Petro-)chemical industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: It's fine. It was quite a slog to get here without a proper bachelor or masters' degree, though. I worked the "equivalent through experience" angle. Studying would have been quicker, though at that time in my life I had no idea what I wanted to do.

Stay in school, kids.

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level 1

Age: 28

Education: Master of Engineering in Photonics (2017)

Years of experience: 4y (6 month in this company)

Function: R&D engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700eu

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2658eu

Extra legal-advantages: Car+Fuel

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: Chip-maker industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I don't get the question.

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Age: 28

Education: Masters degree in Engineering (4y)

Years of Experience: 1.5

Function: Project Engineer

Montly Salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly Salary (after taxes): 2050

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, insurances, option to get reimbursement for phone/laptop, eco-cheques, FIP.

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Construction, engineering

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Doing fine, but I never realised how slow saving up to get a loan for a house actually is. Parents don't really have that much to give, which I don't mind, but only now has it become evident to me how much that actually helps. Also moved out as soon as I started working, which wasn't the best financial decision, but at some point you just now it's time to go.

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Age: 31

Education: Master CS

Years of experience: 7

Function: Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3100 (hired via Deel)

Extra legal-advantages: None

Location: 100% remote

Sector/Industry: Ecommerce

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, could make more with extra legal advantages and tax optimization but mainly doing this for the 100% remote right now

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Age: 31

Education: TSO - Woodworking

Years of experience: 11

Function: CEO (As an employee (bediende), I'm not the company owner)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4137

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2473 + 500 = 2973

Extra legal-advantages: Free lunch at work, mobile phone, internet, company car, fuel card for Belgium (also for private use), 36 days of vacation

Location: Antwerp (Province)

Sector/Industry: Metal industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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Age: 24

Education: MA in Economics years of experience: around 7(nom education direction related)

Function: Bartender lol

Montly salary before taxes: I dont remember

Montly salary after: 2100 plus 300-400 tips, with growth to around 2500-3000(after first month)

Extra legal-advantages: food vouchers, for around 100€

Sector: Horeca

Are you managing with your current income: Yes, pretty much. My wife also works and since we dont have kids yet and eat at job we barely spend money. Her salary is bit lower than mine but it allowed us to save around 2500€ per month, with our 1k rent a month. We quit jobs recently due going back to our home. Never worked day with my profession due low payment, which can increase only after years of experience. Worked all my life as waiter or bartender, which allowed me to buy house already, couple years ago, plus job is very versatile, im barely ever unemployed, but it comes with huge stress. Now we are saving money for our future business

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Age:47

Education:aso with 7th year agricultural tech.

Years of experience:25

Function:nco

Monthly salary (before taxes):3540

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):2420

Extra legal-advantages:15 euro in communication and 70 in clothing and etc . And maybe not a real extra legal but pension at 57 if everything stays the same.

Location: just outside brussels

Sector/Industry:mil

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: the job does have its advantages but it is a lot of outdoors and both mentally / physically demanding work. a comparable possition at the police would pay a lot better ( in all the extras ) but with a lot of extra education and that job has a lot of its own problems that we don't have or at least a lot less. payout for overtime is to be avoided ( 10 euro net / hr in my case ) but due to massive understaffing not always possible . language levels are now a decent amount and worth the effort ( but a long waiting time to get to do the test ) . but all in all quite happy with it.

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Idk about all of those, I just started working and it honestly is a lot to handle all at once...

But I get €1850 bruto a month, so I think that's about €1700 nett?

I manage an inline skate shop in east flanders. Well, manage... It's almost as if it's my own store but without having to handle all of the finances. So yes, I got the chance to redesign the entire site, create a lansing page and manage social media as well

I don't think it's a lot is we look at all the tasks I do, but I guess it's not too bad...

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 22

Education: high school

Years of experience: 2,5

Function: Trainee air traffic controller

Monthly salary (before taxes):5500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4650

Extra legal-advantages: very low taxes, expat allowance, private international health insurance, school allowance, Diplomatic identification,diplomatic license plates, tax free fuel, travel allowance, shift allowance, children allowance,...

Location: Maastricht (live in belgium)

Sector/Industry: Air traffic control

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yep(the after taxes amount is not a mistake), this is only the trainee salary.. Real salarary(net)is more than double to start(this i will probably get in a few months just after i turn 23, we are talking around 10k net). Also a very rewarding job, in my opinion one of the most rewarding that exists. It´s a very unknown job however the selection is accesible to almost everyone. I highly encourage anyone to take a look into this career path. If you have any interest just leave a little comment, i will try to give you a nice answer.

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How did you get started in this?

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Age: 27

Education: master

Years of experience: 1y

Function: zelfstandig friturist

Monthly salary (before taxes): 8-14k

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3-6k

Extra legal-advantages: company car, phone, internet, mealvouchers,...

Location: Rural West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: horeca

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

Jip, previous Jr. projectmanager in IT. From 65hrs/w at the old job to 20-25hrs/w. I'm mutch more happier now.

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Damn

Does that difference between net/brut account for cost of keeping the frituur running?

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Gross profit ;)

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Age: 33

Education: Msc in Chemistry

Years of experience: 8

Function: Senior Sales Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~7500€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~3800€

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, phone, laptop, Meal vouchers (8€), Group insurance, Hospital Insurance

Location: Brussels region

Sector/Industry: Life Sciences

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, great months bring great rewards. Bosses (+1, +2) are not too happy with some of the bonusses I make though. They are often trying to harvest the credit of my achievements for themselves.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 26

Education: aso - some university classes, but never finished - sommelier degree

Years of experience: 6

Function: self employed restaurant owner

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2584

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1500

Extra legal-advantages: our bv pays our insurances, gas for car, €340 rent for the space it uses in our house. Buy small things on the BV like cleaning products, some food and drinks,...

Location: limburgSector/Industry: horeca

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Eh, when business is going well I work 80/90 hours a week, which is way to much for what I get paid. If I were to just go work for an employer I would make nearly double and wouldn't have to work as much. When business is slow I cannot pay out my salary. Honestly I would never be self employed anymore in horeca. Certainly not at this time. Have to pay €7000 back on taxes this year because we got that 'overbruggingsrecht' when we were forced to close down due to covid.

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Age: 32

Education: master of Science in electrical engineering

Years of experience: 10

Function: intermediate repair engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000€ ft, i work 4/5 so 2400€

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900€ + 100€ cycling fee

Extra legal-advantages: eco en meal vouchers

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: electronics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No, i feel like I'm being ripped of by my company and seriously doubt to change this year.

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For 10 Years of experience in electrical engineering you are definitely getting ripped off. I highly suggest you to look around and/or talk to some headhunters

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Age: 31

Education: Bachelor IT

Years of experience: 6y

Function: CyberSec Consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): as i'm freelancer there is no one number

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-6500€

Extra legal-advantages: car, internet/phone, meal vouchers etc.

Location: Brussels area

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes

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Age: 30

Education: None I guess, stopped school because I didn't go anyways due to mental health

Years of experience: 0.5

Function: Product expert in electrical distribution

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2700€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1950€

Extra legal-advantages: EOY bonus

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Electricity (?)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Happy with it, want more though.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 26

Education: TSO - 7th year Chemische Procestechnieken

Years of experience: 3

Function: process operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 7k-ish

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): About 3.5k + about 15k a year in performance bonusses and vacation pay

Extra legal-advantages: 160-180 food cheques, ecocheques, hospitalisation, dental and eye insurances, e-bike lease, pension fund, couple of other minor things but idk all of them

Location: Gent

Sector/Industry: Chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Would be embarrasing if not

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 35

Education: Master of Computer Science

Years of experience: 10

Function: IT Consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4050

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3050

Extra legal-advantages: company car + fuel card + parking card, IP ruling while it lasts (hence the high netto salary), expenses allowance, yearly bonus (if company's profit is high enough), medical insurance, possibility for bike leasing (ca. 30% discount on retail price)

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT outsourcing, mainly in government projects

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Due to personal reasons (severe health issues spouse): hardly... my decision is made to change employer once the IP ruling has ended and if my current employer does not compensate at all.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 34

Education: Industrial Engineer IT

Years of experience: 10

Function: Senior software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3700 (including 200 vaa)

Extra legal-advantages: IP rights, meal vouchers, ecocheques, group insurance, hospital insurance, 13th month

Location: Full time remote

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, definitely.

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Age: 32

Education: Electrical Engineering PhD

Years of experience: 8 years relevant experience

Function: R&D engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4200

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2600 ~ 2700 (depends on how many days I go by public transport + bicycling)

Extra legal-advantages: Stock options, meal vouchers, phone contract, 13th month, eco cheques, hospitalisation insurance, group/guaranteed income insurance

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: Medical electronics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I can't complain, but it's a bit below what would be considered standard for my background, should be at €5000 gross but accepted this in lieu of the stock options.

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Age: 31

Education: PhD in Chemistry; patent attorney qualification

Years of experience: 3.5 in patents

Function: In-house patent officer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200 EUR

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500

Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel ; phone with data; work from home 3/5; hospitalisation insurance for whole family; meal vouchers; very small amount of eco vouchers. Fresh fruit in the office (but I am only there 2 days a week)

Location: Antwerp (Province)

Sector/Industry: Manufacturing

Are you managing/content with your current income?: I am obviously getting by with my salary (partner has similar income), but I know that I could easily get more in e.g. private practice. However, my experience is that private patent practices are incredibly toxic, hours are terrible, initial pay is not that great, you are basically paying off the partner's Tesla and summer house, etc. So I am very happy with the work I am currently doing, with a lot of responsibilities and at the same time a lot of freedom.

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Age: 31

Education: master political science

Years of experience: 7

Function: IT functional consultant

Salary (before taxes): 3970

Salary (after taxes): 2460

Extralegal advantages: company car, meal vouchers, group insurance, hospital insurance, mobile subscription, ecocheques

Location: Antwerp

Sector: IT (SaaS)

Are you getting by? Yes. We are fortunate to just have bought a house with a low fixed rate.

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· 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Age: 27

Education: Master in Business Administration

Years of experience: 3

Function: Product Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2900

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350

Extra legal-advantages: Car, Fuel Card, Meal Vouchers, Insurances

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, can't really complain!

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Did you start in IT as a Product Manager ? it's a career path I would be interested in but I've got more of a technical background with a focus on Business/functional analysis recently.

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· 15 hr. ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Ah yes, I had the same idea as you 2 years ago! I actually started working as a FA/BA but I realized pretty quickly that I wanted to be a Product Manager/Product Owner. I actually first did another job as Project Manager, which gave me the confidence that I could handle a job as Product Manager.

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Thanks for taking the time to answer ! Yes, I'm really interested in becoming a product owner, having worked in Agile teams before (as a developer and as a FA) and really liked our PO and how he worked. But I'm not too clear on how to bridge that gap between analyst and PM/PO. Did it happen organically for you or did you job hop and interview into that position ?

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· 15 hr. ago
Vlaams-Brabant

I did job hop as I felt that the opportunity would never come in my first job as FA. Like you mentioned - the gap was enormous. I got lucky that another company was looking for a Product Manager. You should know that - at least in my experience - being a PO/PM is very far away from all the technical stuff you look into as a FA/BA. It's more business related and you should really start from a business understanding.

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A bit late to the party
Age: 31

Education: Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

Years of experience: 1.5 ( 9 total)

Function: ICT Expert

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3586,45

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2221.11

Extra legal-advantages: Work laptop, cellphone (max 200, can't pay part myself), "Flexible work hours", WFH (max 2/5), meal vouchers, km, hospital insurance

Location: Flemish Brabant

Sector/Industry: Government ICT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Certainly, changed jobs after a being near a bore-out / in a depression. Got paid more than in my previous function because IT is a niche profession for government. I have 9 years of experience, although my previous experience was as a lab chemist.

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Interesting. How did you find an IT job without any experience to begin with?

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I was building and tinkering with pc's for the years prior. Learned a lot from YT and I have really good troubleshooting skills.

I showed I could understand difficult concepts and adapt them to our use case. The exams were tough, but I love what I am doing now. I keep learning every day, but I ran the department for about 6 months alone, so I think they made a good choice in me.

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Bit late, but for archival reasons, let's add it anyway.

Age: 38

Education: Bachelor ICT

Years of experience: 15

Function: Technical Writer

Monthly salary (before taxes): around €3900

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around €2550

Extra legal-advantages: laptop, meal vouchers, hospitalization insurance, 13th month, yearly bonus (if company does well), telework compensation, pensiun fund

Location: West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Technically speaking the metal industry (PC209), but a little more high-tech than just plain metal (lol).

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah, definitely. While I graduated as bachelor IT, I got a total burnout from that after i graduated and accidetally got rolled into doing tech writing instead. And while that underpaid severely compared to my peers (started at €1700 gross in '07), I loved doing it (compared to constant coding). So I built experience and hopped jobs a few times. Now I've found myself a job that pays well, where stress/job freedom are decent, where the tech I write for is inspiring and fun, and the location is not too far from where I live. I could always earn more if I wanted, but that would mean sacrificing travel time, personal freedom and increasing stress levels and responsibilities. None of those things sound appealing to me.

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· 20 hr. ago · edited 19 hr. ago

Age: 30

Education: BSO

Years of experience: 3 (in IT as full-stack developer)

Function: Senior Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2700

Extra legal-advantages: Electric company car, charging pass, health insurance, 5 extra holidays, laptop, smartphone, phone subscription, reimbursements when purchasing software licenses or subscriptions, education voucher (courses, certification), I can go to a conference once a year and the company will pay for hotel, flight and ticket, yearly company city trip (all inclusive), after work activities, free meals and drinks during the day.

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Pretty much. I spend 700/month on rent and food, the rest is split in DCA'ing Bitcoin and putting it in the bank. I think the company really appreciate their employees. So when there is a tight deadline and you need to make a bit of overtime or work in the weekends, it feels like no effort.

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· 7 hr. ago · edited 6 hr. ago

Age: 33

Education: BSO, added 7th year

Years of experience: 15

Function: Chemical operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5900

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3500

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques, insurances, free company transportation, cafetariaplan

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure, with my wife earning north of 2k we get along pretty well. 2 kids and paying of a new build house we still manage to save 20k+ a year (monthly savings, vacation money, 13th month and some bonusses included). We both have a side hustle as well though (zelfstandige in bijberoep), earning us a couple of k a year.

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· 5 hr. ago · edited 3 hr. ago
Belgium

Age: 33

Education: No higher education that I finished, just highschool graduated.

Years of experience: 7ears of experience

Function: Consultant software tester

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2863 (so high cause of a 22,5% ip rulling)

Extra legal-advantages: Company car / Charge pass /Yearly bonus +-3500 net / Group insurance / hospitality insurance / phone / laptop / internet

Location: i live in Limburg the companies I work for the location changes.

Sector/Industry: It / testing

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I live a frugal lifestyle so i am happy with my current income. I do however see expenses rising so I am Looking forward to finaly getting the indexation in januari.

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· 3 hr. ago · edited 3 hr. ago

Age: 29

Education: Bachelor Grafische en digitale media (crossmedia) + Bachelor communicatie management

Years of experience: 7 (overall in graphic design, UX, UI, ...)

Function: UX/UI designer (sometimes Product Owner, when the goal is user/UX-oriented)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2911

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000

Extra legal-advantages: car, fuel card, maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, 13e maand, vakantiegeld + I can do my full time job in 4 days (which leaves me with 1 day per week I can freelance / work on own projects / ...) + our vacation days are kinda flexible, you can take 'as many as you want'

Location: Kortrijk

Sector/Industry: IT/design

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I can manage, but I'm getting a lot of signals (in my freelance environment as well) that I'm underpaid. Also working on a renovation on my own, so to be honest, all money is very very welcome :D

Addition: I'm up for a new job where they are asking my salary expectations (same position), and have no idea what to say. So any indication to what is 'marktconform' would be severely appreciated.

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This is certainly on the lower end, good you’re leaving. If there confidence issues I personally recommend Ted Demopolis, he’s in security but his YouTube is gold.

If you do want to continue fulltime, I recommend not negotiating against yourself, ask ex colleagues or random people on LinkedIn what you should ask for. There are apps with communities like fishbowl and blind, but I don’t think those have traction in Belgium

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· 3 hr. ago
sexy fokschaap

Age: 36
Education: Professional Bachelor MCT
Years of experience: 13
Function: IT Consultant & Team Coach/Chapter Lead
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4750 (incl. IP rewards, warrants)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3250
Extra legal-advantages: car, fuel card, phone, phone plan, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, group insurance, hosp. insurance, laptop, part of my internet plan is reimbursed, 13th month, yearly bonus (target based)
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: ICT (web full stack)

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Age: 29

Education: bachelor (3 years)

Years of experience: 9

Function:Facility Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: meal voucher, car, phone, computer, work clothing, 33 legal days off, health insurance, 3-monthly doctor check up (blood and health), free vaccines

Location: Brussels South

Sector/Industry: pharma company

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: when you can handle your money and aren't getting fooled by advertising that does everything to make you spent more than what you earn (gigantic TV, new phone every year, stupid expensive vacations, credit to buy everything etc...), it's easy to live comfortably.

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Age: 27

Education: Master in Business Engineering/Economics

Years of experience: 3.5

Function: Consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.6k

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.6k

Extra legal-advantages: car, meal vouchers, laptop, phone, …

Location: Brussel

Sector/Industry: Finance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Managing yes, content no.

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· 3 days ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of firm do you work at (big four, small firm in a specific sector, etc)? Studying Business Engineering myself and consulting looked interesting after university.

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Big 4 indeed - good guess!

MBB would pay more, but hours would be absurd compared to what I do now.

FYI: I am usually working 09:00 - 18:30

Additionally, if you DM me, I qm open to sending you my LinkedIn for a chat.

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Made an anonymous account because my main is a little too recognizable.

Age: 29

Education: Master in Biochemistry & Biotechnology

Years of experience: 4

Function: PhD researcher

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2846.87

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2517.84

Extra legal-advantages: Subscription to public transport to and from work.

Location: I prefer not to disclose.

Sector/Industry: Biochemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Reading through these posts does suggest that I am underpaid for my age and qualifications, but I will probably make up for that after the PhD.

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You most likely won't knowing how incompetent the industry is at valuing PhDs.

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It depends? STEM PhD's don't earn bad afaik, especially if you land a research related position in pharma (or similar).

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· 3 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Cuberdon

Age: 30

Education: TSO, bachelors social work

Years of experience: 7

Function: Team manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4150

Monthly salary (after taxes): €2900

Extra legal advantages: €150 Food vouchers/month, €200 ecocheques/year, km vergoeding, group insurance, free health insurance, 13th month, 14th month, cellphone, laptop, extralegal child allowance, double holiday pay.

Location: Ghent

Sector: Social services

Are you managing/content with your current income: I can't complain really. I have the money to support the family, pay the bills, do the occasional vacation, do my hobby.

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level 2

Nice to see another social worker in here! Been looking around for some comparisons :)

May I ask what type of organisation/sector you work for?

Your monthly salary does surprise me but I'm not really aware of the team lead salaries. Did you also work in the same company as a regular social worker and do you experience much difference in pay?

My rather limited information on social worker pay mostly learns me there are big differences in various sectors and you shouldn't expect big paychecks like some other commenters here with engineering/law jobs. Hence my questions, but I completely understand if you don't want to elaborate further.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Cuberdon

Hey there fellow social worker! I work for a mutuality. I did work in the same company as a 'regular' social worker for 6 years prior to my 'promotion'. My last paycheck with 6 years of experience was €3330/month bruto, net was around €2150/month. So there's a €800/month difference there.

There are big differences in pay but don't focus on the paycheck alone. Also look at the extra legal advantages, holidays, ... . Those can differ a lot too depending on which organisation you work with.

A job as a social worker won't make you rich but it's decent pay. Also the meaningfulness of the job is insane with the right mindset.

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Thank you for the extra info!

I fully agree with you there are more perks to the job than just making money. If that were the main goal of a social worker, some mistakes were made in the choice of profession :p

However, man's gotta eat. So hence my interest in comparing a bit here and there when presented with the opportunity to do so. My main goal is to be happy, being rich is definetly not a goal on its own here. A decent enough pay is though.

I work in a hospital myself and I've got the feeling our work often doesn't differ that much from the social work in mutualities. Which makes for some nice food for thought!

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 27

Education: 7th year Sen-Se in Chemical Processes

Years of experience: 6,4

Function: Chemical Process Operator

Monthly Salary (before taxes): Anywhere between €5700 and €7000 depending on how many days off due to shift work.

Monthly salary after taxes: €3400- €4000

Extra Legals: Maaltijdcheques, Ecocheques, Pension fund Fietslease, CAO90 (~€1600), Hospitalisatieverzekering.

Location: Westerlo

Sector: Chemistry

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Age: 32

Education: 4 year bachelor

Years of experience: 9

Function: Supply Chain management

Monthly before: 7,500 ish

Monthly net: around 3,600

Extra legal advantages: possible huge bonus 75k in 2021 expecting around 35-40k this year, many years nothing. Meal vouchers, company car around 1,100 per month, gym and all the healthcare stuff.

Location: Vlaams Brabant

Industry: FMCG

Am I managing? Yeah but shit was expensive this year so looking forward to indexation and things to calm the fuck down.

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interesting, what's the role? some kind of director or managing partner?

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No Mid/ mid-upper management- it’s a very large FMCG multinational head quartered in Belgium…. I’m sure you can guess it.

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very nice

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The amount of tax we have to pay is fucking depressing

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Age: 30

Education: None

Years of experience: 3

Function: consultant Helpdesk agent gor the European commission

Monthly salary (before taxes): no idea

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ≈1900

Extra legal-advantages: nope

Location: bruxelles

Sector/Industry: informatics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: not sure what this means

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If you are working for a third party, ask for a raise. They are billing at least 300-350/day to the Commission.

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I'm not sure how that would work with this company mostly as this is a "fourth party" Me -> company 1 -> company 2 -> client subsection -> real client

And i think company 2 would be the one charging 300+€

but I'll definitively will check on that

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Age: 35 Education: Bachelor degree Mechanical engineering

Years of experience: 12 years

Function: education - graduatie degrees & bachelors

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2,800

Extra legal-advantages: nothing special, but more holidays than most, laptop, repayment of train/Bike rides, a lot of free machines at my disposal

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: education

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: no

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Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: no

why not? Because, relatively speaking, that net salary is nothing to sneeze at.

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Not really taught about it and I’m spending investments in my home (sonar-panels, warmtepomp, etc).

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Age - 44 Education - Law Function - general counsel Monthly salary - 15000 Net - around 7000 Advantages - electric company car, phone, laptop, health insurance, hospital insurance, pension fund, stocks, iPad, bonus.

I manage.

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Age: 31

Education: Uni dropout

Yeas of experience: 11

Function: Retail work in a grocery store

Monthly salary before taxes: €2530' ish

Monthly salary after taxes: 1950'ish.

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouches (5€/day), early/late hours paid more, 13th and 14th month pay (vakantiegeld), hospitalisation insurance, km-vergoeding, profit participation. €35 a month in discounts on shopping within shops of the group my store belongs to.
All in all, if we add up all those monthly extras my net per month is a little above 2k.

Location: Lier

Sector/Industry: Sales/Retail

Are you managing: Yes. We can't save much but we're happy where we are now and with what we have. (we rent) Biggest thing which would cut costs for me would be my car, although both me and my girlfriend need it for work-related circumstances. (self-employed as secondary occupation)

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Age: 36

Education: Specialist in Information Security (Master not recognized in BE)

Years of experience: 13 years

Function: Manager in IT (ITAM)

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 4 800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 3 200

Extra legal-advantages: car+fuel, lunch cheques, prepaid phone plan, group insurance, medical insurance (opted out), unpredictable bonus

Location: Brussels (rand)

Sector/Industry: Global retail business

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very happy with the job I do, considering I was lucky enough to end up outside my home country. I am not happy with the income at all, though. I am the only breadwinner in our household of four (my partner cannot work), we rent our place, the price increases for everything make our disposable income negative this year. Honestly, I am very stressed, since we have no financial net (it was burn back in 2020 when I lost my previous job due to covid crisis).

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This is just a post to get depressed by..

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· 2 days ago
West-Vlaanderen

Age: 37

Education: Master

Years of experience: 14

Function: Accountant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2550-2600

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, group insurance, hospital insurance, salary car, fuel card

Location: West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Construction

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I could earn more with my knowledge/education, but I don't have the ambition. I like my work/life balance right now. We noticed our savings weren't exactly increasing as much as usual, but we manage better now with a little more hands on approach.

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Age: 33

Education: Master in Law, MBA, CFA, Bachelor Marketing

Years of experience: 9 in this specific sector

Function: (co-)business owner of a real estate development firm and startup Family Office. Cryptocurrency ETF on the side.

Monthly salary and equivalents

- I have an r/C in favor of my private person for EUR 200.000 from the top holding company (above the real estate firms). This can be used for tax free income or to enjoy 4,07% interests a year at 30% RV. As this credit rate might rise quite a bit next January due to rising interest rates in general I am waiting it out to decide whether to get that EUR 200.000 (or part of it) tax free instead of wages/invoices or keep it there to get the interests at 30% RV tax rate which is still quite low taxed.

- Up until now I got about EUR 6.250 + EUR 250 onkosten + maaltijdcheques from the company that only does projects under registration fees (so no VAT number which makes invoicing from management company a bad idea) with the intention to make it easier to get a private loan to build a new house. Once the loan is signed the bank doesn't really care anymore and I can optimize my income with regards to taxes again. I'm currently finalizing the conversations with different banks and in January I will probably cut back this income to EUR 3.000 a month in favor of other more tax-friendly sources of income.

- EUR 4.000 of which a part in auteursrechten from my eenmanszaak for creative copy work for the various businesses

- EUR 3.000 as fixed monthly bestuurdersfee for the managementvennootschap

- EUR 4.000 from the passively running crypto fund. That's a long term average as I'm not making any money at all recently for obvious reasons.

About EUR 100.000 in dividends a year on average from the top holding taxed according to VVPR bis at 15%.

Alltogether that means around 15-16k nett per month or close to 200k per year over the longer term, but as you can see above it greatly varies on which type of income is chosen and dividends are of course not a fixed monthly income.

During years of investment there are no dividends which cuts the monthly nett income in half.

Extra legal-advantages: All the grey zone sjoemeling that comes with the nametag. No heavy fraud or businesses in Panama but I'll admit that a piece of marble bought by the business could get lost in my house.

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Construction/finance/family offices

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

Sure. It is hard to keep it up though as there is never any guarantee for the future and my baby daughter is consuming more and more (fun) time. I essentially have to put in the same effort while my available time is cut in half and I feel it has been taking its toll with regards to stress on my body in the last year so I'll have to work on that.

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level 1

Age: 38
Education: Master of Science in Tourism
Years of experience: 14
Function: business owner
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6700€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4900€
Extra legal-advantages: Expensed to the company: car, home office rent, cell phone, home internet, restaurant visits. Extended health and dental benefits. Some free travel through accumulating a large amount of credit card points from business expenses.
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Sector/Industry: Hospitality
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Sometimes I wish I had a normal job but most of the time being self-employed is pretty awesome. After 10 years in business things are pretty well oiled and manageable. I enjoy the flexibility that comes with it and the few weeks of time off we can finally take. I'm hoping to grow the company a bit more in the near future because the cost of living in Vancouver is insane. Our household income is pretty much mine x 2 as my wife co-owns the business. Yet we only just managed to buy an apartment. We'd love to buy a house in the next decade but we'll have to increase our income in order to do so.

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No.

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Op · 2 days ago
Choccy lover or something

bby plz ;-;

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level 1

Age: 22

Education: ASO, bachelor degree in social work, studying to get my masters degree in social work

Years of experience: 0,5 years internship, stuck around and been working here since 06/2021. Total of nearly 2 years.

Function: Social worker

Monthly salary (before taxes): +- 1050. (33% jobtime to combine with studies at 50%). The other 17% is my spare time aka chill, fitness, weed and BAM: more schoolwork (obviously), because there are always deadlines creeping about.

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-1000-1030. Small difference possible due to km compensation I get, I work at 3 different locations for my employer.

Extra legal-advantages: None, student contract. But hey I pay 2,71% taxes so that is an advantage. While maintaining child support.

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Healthcare -social service department of a hospital.

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: That's allright. I pay my own living with my salary so rather self-suficcient but I like it that way. Because of my situation I applied for a fat juicy scholarship which I'm currently awaiting. Thank you taxpayers for saving my ass <3

Some doctors and patients make me go absolutely nuts. But other than that I love social work and I love my job. For you nice people out there: you make me love my job.

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Op · 2 days ago
Choccy lover or something

Oh don’t get me started, doctors are generally some of the dumbest smart people I know….

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level 1

Age: 27

Education: IT Bachelor

Years of experience:2

Function: Fullstack Developper

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2215

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 22500

Extra legal-advantages: Car, oil card, chèque repas, insurance group

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Software development

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm getting a bit discontent with my salary. Developer in Belgium are highly underpaid compared to international market.. Like.. Yhea 2250net is good, but I could get so much more more in another country. And yhea I've got the car benefit, but I almost not use it. Like.. I maybee refill the tank 1times every 2months ?

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· 3 days ago
Belgian Fries

Age: 19

Education: kindergarten

Years of experience: 0

Function: truth teller and part-time Redditor

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 5000 (including real and imaginary extra benefits + miscalculations)

Extra legal-advantages: more than you

Location: in my bed

Sector/Industry: chemicals

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am if you are not

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· 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago

Age: 31

Education: Master Civil Engineering

Years of experience: 8

Function: Team lead

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4700

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2700

Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card, phone voucher, sim card, eco cheques, hospital insurance,

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: Energy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yea, but expecting a raise regardless of the high inflation.

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level 1

Age: 28
Education: civil engineering - architecture
Years of experience: 3
Function: Project lead
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +- 2350
Extra legal-advantages: company car with fuel card, hospital insurance, retirement savings of 75 eur/month, iPhone, 6 eur net per worked day, eco cheques
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Construction
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm definitely happy with my income, certainly with the approaching indexation. However my job does come with some stress, fixed holidays (bouwverlof) and long hours that warrant the rather high salary. Even though I like my job, it is a tiring combination of overseeing workers that start before 7AM while the administrative work needs to be done later in the day.

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Age: 33 Education: Masters degree YOE: 7 Function: self employed Before texes: 6000 After taxes: 2700-3000 Extra legal : None (author rights?) Sector : creative

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Age : 51 Education : Masters Years of experience : 28 Function : Independent project manager Monthly salary (before taxes) : 20000 BV / 5500 personal Monthly salary (after taxes incl other net) 3050 Extra legal advantages : Car, gas card, cable, utilities, laptop, mobile phone, parking card, newspaper, health insurance, travel insurance Location : Antwerpen Sector : Pharma Are you managing : happily managing

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level 1

Age: 27

Education: Master of Science in Elec. systems and circuits (burgerlijk ingenieur)

Years of experience: 4 year

Function: Engineer

Monthly salary (bruto): 5050

Monthly salary (net):~3300 (huwelijksquotient met phd student)

Legal advantages: Company car (no fuel card with cafetariaplan) + 160 meal cheques, internet paid for

Location: Antwerp, chemical industry

Im happy with my current job, lots of opportunities and very nice benefits. Bureaucracy of a large company is sometimes challenging and tedious.

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level 1

Age: 37

Education: Master in Criminology

Years of experience: almost 10 in my current job

Function: social inspector

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.068,04 €

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3020,05 €

Extra legal-advantages: The standard Federal civil servant ones; no meal vouchers

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Federal public administration

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes I am comfortable.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 29

Education: Masters degree

Years of experience: 6

Function: Global engineering

Monthly salary before taxes: 6070

Monthly salary after taxes: 3340 (+ yearly bonus if targets achieved + overal good year for the company ranging between 12 to 25k gross

Extra-legal advantages: meal vouchers, ecocheques, hospitalisation insurance, …

Location: Leuven

Industry/Sector: FMCG

Managing with current income: Yes. It’s a quite demanding job with long hours and high stake projects with a constant requirement to proof yourself but I feel incredibly blessed to earn this amount of money at my age. While I sometimes dread going to work - like most - I do enjoy my job. It’s challenging but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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level 1

Age: 28

Education: High School

Years of experience: 5

Function: Product Owner (consultant)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900 (including copyright compensation, net allowance, 550net for not taking the company car)

Extra legal-advantages: Insurance, phone, meal vouchers

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm definitely managing but I think I could still negotiate for more or greatly increase my income by going freelance.

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level 1

Age: 30

Education: bachelor of science, biotech

Years of experience: 8

Function: admin support

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3.145

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2.105

Extra legal-advantages: pensionplan, hospital insurance, laptop, ecovouchers.
Edit: 36 days off + extra holidays.

Location: Gent

Sector/Industry: Biotech

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I was happy until I saw this thread. Very low mortgage though so can't complain.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Would love to see other cybersecurity people comment here!

Age: 31

Education: Bachelor of computer science

Years of experience: 10

Function: cybersecurity consultant

Monthly Salary: 4700

Monthly salary after taxes: 3112 (+ one month netto revenue based bonus, includes; representation, homeworkig, 15% intellectual property)

Extralegal advantages: company car in 45k range, car insurance + Petrol card, 160 meal vouchers, 250 eco vouchers, hospitalisation insurance, conference and training budget, phone + subscription

Location: within Flanders depending on the client, 60% home work

Sector: professional services

Are you getting content with your current income?: No, I’m not benefiting from the tax system in the way that a family man is, so it feels like a transfer of wealth from me to the healthcare, education, and pension systems. I rarely need healthcare, I was educated abroad, and my elders live abroad.

I’m treated like a wealthy person, yet the reality is most banks refuse to fund a mortgage, and the ones that do, gouge me on the interest as there’s little alternative As a result, I rent, and put my savings into an emergency fund, and invest what’s left in ETFs r/befire

Companies are welling to pay more but are unable to as there’s a tax ceiling designed to make Belgium competitive relative to the EU.

My peers who left to the US are paid in the 200k-300k+ a year range.

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freelance is the way to go, no idea why a cybersecurity dude with 10 years experience is working as a wage slave. As you said it, you hit that 4500 - 5000 gross salary where companies are only going to give you the yearly 0,2% of salary increase because of the insane taxes. Start a bv and start working self employed, it is the only way forward in Belgium for people like me and you in IT. Or you can move to the US and become a Silicon Valley wage slave.

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level 1

Age: 24

Education: Master’s degree

Years of experience: 1.5

Function: Financial analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2300€

Monthly salary (after taxes): €1950

Extra-legal advantages: car, fuel, maaltijdchèques, ecochèques, health insurance, telework allowance (150/month), phone subscription (50/month), iPhone

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Finance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age: 24

Education: Master in Law + Master in ICT Law

Years of experience: 1

Function: Cybersecurity consultant

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050ish (includes net + 100 representation allowance + 160 meal vouchers in cash)

Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel, phone + subscription , hospital insurance, retirement fund, 13th month, ecocheques once a year

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT/banking

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah it's good for now as it's my first job and I've only had it for one year (especially the car is nice to have). I'm hoping in the future they'll give me more responsibilities and a better wage.

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level 1

Age: 31

Education: Masters of engineering

Years of experience: 5

Function: Sustainability consultant in the building sector

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2800 euros for a 4/5

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2063 euros

Extra legal-advantages: chèques repas, pension fund, company bike, Alan health insurance, subscription to headspace, and I'm probably forgetting some

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: The carbon market

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I was until I realized that I can make 3 times my gross income by working half of that if I become independant. It really puts a lot in perspective..

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Age: 35

Education: A2 Elektrotechniek

Years of experience: 17

Function: Onderhoudstechnieker

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5600€ (km vergoeding + on call for a week every month = 1600€)

Monthly salary (after taxes): 3500€ (wife ten laste) (on call for a week = 500-600€)

Extra legal advantages: pensioensparing, good ziekteverzekering

Location: Antwerp

Sector: Water

Yes I manage with my income.

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level 1

Age: 36

Education: ASO

Years of experience: 12 years with the firm, 1 year experience with the job

Function: Logistics manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): +/- 4800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- 2800

Extra legal-advantages: car, laptop, gsm, eco-cheques, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance, guarenteed income insurance, meal vouchers 8€, 13th month

Location: West Flanders

Sector/Industry: Construction

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

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level 1

Age: 22

Education: Master in Political Sciences: European & International Governance

Years of experience: 0

Function: Admissions coordinator at a university

Monthly salary (before taxes): €2900

Monthly salary (after taxes, incl. additional net salary): €1900

Extra legal advantages: 15 additional paid days off, public transport subscription, eco-vouchers, discount for any children wishing to study at the university in question

Location: Brussels Capital Region

Sector/Industry: Administration/Education

Are you managing/content with your current income?: I got lucky to renew a rental contract for student accommodation while finishing up my thesis, which allows me to have a small flat with all costs included at low rent. This will allow me to save up for the future, while I am currently on the lookout for a job that's more in my field of expertise.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 32

Education: Bachelor Multimedia Productie

Years of experience: 8

Function: Frontend developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3580

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150

Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card, meal vouchers, eco cheques, mobile phone, laptop, internet subscription, phone subscription, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, 13th month, performance bonus (not this year because of the recession)

Location: Gent with main office in Antwerpen (4/5 work from home)

Sector/Industry: Educational IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Live together with my SO and my SO makes around 2700 net, so yeah pretty happy.+ indexation and 3 % raise next year will bump this up quite nicely

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level 1

Age: 27

Educations: engineering Masters

Yoe: 5 years

Function: project manager

Monthly salary before taxes: 4343 eur

Monthly after taxes (without meal vouchers, 13th month etc): 2580 eur

Extra legal: hospitalization, group insurance, holiday pay, 13th month, meal vouchers (8,5/day), leasing a bike currently, yearly bonus (2 to 4.5 k brut) and pay for patents (1k brut per year)

Location: Flanders

Industry: automotive

I’m content, currently working towards a bigger promotion/salary increase.

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level 1

Age: 25

Education: BSO 7 jaar kantoor

Years of experience: 5

Function: driver

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000-3500 (various always)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1800-2100 (note that I work 80%) fulltime would be around 2200-2300 + vakantiegeld ongv 4000-5000 euro

Extra legal-advantages: hospitalisatieverzekering, maaltijdcheques, groepskortingen bij partners, goedkope verzekeringen, genoeg stakingsdagen

Location: Adinkerke (coast)

Sector/Industry: public transport

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: meer dan gelukkig, als ik eens zin heb om wat extra te werken word dit ook dubbel betaald, net als de zondagen die ook standaard dubbel betaald zijn.

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Driver...bij?

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· 2 days ago
/r/belgium royalty

Age: 40

Education: Highschool (TSO)

Years of experience: +/- 15 in my field

Function: Functional IT support (level 2)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.569,40

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.408,40

Extra legal-advantages: Transport fee, €100 net expenses, meal vouchers, internet, hospital insurance.

Location: W-VL

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I took a pay cut for this job, but quality of life made it worth it. Still content. Would like a company car.

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level 1

Age: 23, 24 next month

Education: didn't finish, no CESS, did a 2 year ipeps IT formation

Years of experience: 1 1/2

Function: Site IT & Junior JDE Finance analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400

Extra legal-advantages: like 150 bucks a month of edenred ticket for groceries, DKV insurance, a few, other stuff but I said no to company car.

Location: Liège

Sector/Industry: IT, work for a paper company

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yeah I'm good

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level 1

Age: 28

Education: high school

Years of experience: 2

Function: Warehouse customer support

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2060

Extra legal-advantages: Skoda Octavia full option, unlimited fuel in Belgium, Eco + meal checques, Iphone 14 pro and phonesubscription, insurance, pension saving

Location: East-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Transport

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No but I should

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Age: 34 Education: bachelor years of experience: 8 Function: operations management + BPO Monthly salary (before taxes): €5800 Monthly salary net: €3400 (3200 + 200 KEW) Extra legal advantages: meal vouchers, medical insurance, group insurance, company car + unlimited fuel card (actually charging card since it’s EV) Location: West-Vlaanderen Sector: chemical industry

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: Master's

Years of experience: 5ish

Function: Policy Advisor

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4400e

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2680e

Extra legal-advantages: 8e lunch vouchers, 250e ecocheques, 150e consumptiecheques, 60e WFH allowance, monthly MOBIB paid, work phone, 13th month, yearly bonus linked to appraisal, pension fund, hospitalization + dental insurance.

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: EU affairs/energy and climate

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am managing, but I think I am at this stage a bit underpaid with the level of responsibilities I have taken on in 2022. If I were to shift organization I think I would have a salary + title boost for sure. Other than that I love my organization for the most part, and I have a great management team which seems to be rare. Work life balance is generally respected and number of holidays per year is nice.

I know it is a shitty thing to say these days but I would really like to have a little EV/PHEV company car for my free time use - going for hikes, random trips to smaller villages that are hard to reach by transit, that sort of thing. Otherwise I go everywhere else by bike and I would never commute by car (it would take me probably 45+ minutes compared to the 15 min on bike).

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Age: 24

Education: Professional bachelor in Electronics-ICT

Years of experience: 1.5

Function: Test Engineer/Analyst, mostly Analyst. Consultant.

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2330 (€199 extra netto)

Extra legal-advantages: 8 euro/day Meal vouchers, Company car with unlimited personal use and fuel card, FIP plan, 15€ Mobile phone abonnement, 20€ internet compensation per month, DKV hospital insurance for myself and my wife/children.

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: IT consultancy SW/HW testing

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:salary is in line with what is good for the function. Apparently I was the only person who got a raise when in service for 1 year, that mostly doesn't happen, not really content with the company I work with, policies are not encouraging loyalty to the company since nowhere is mentioned 'ancienniteit' except for 1 extra free day/5 years of service. Currently just building up my resume and salary and within a couple years I can make the switch to another company, loyalty sadly usually isn't rewarded in comparison with job hopping every x years.When inflation hits in January that will also be a nice extra.

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Brussels

Age: 31

Education: secondary school 7th year professionnel (CESS)

Years of experience: 10 years

Function: Manufacturing Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500

Extra legal-advantages: 8€ food-cheques, 13th month, hospital insurance, group insurance, phone + subscription and laptop.

Location: Zaventem

Sector/Industry: Aeronautics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Considering i don't have a uni degree, i climbed the ladder in the same company from blue collar to engineer position in 8 years by proving my abilities on the field (i am a woman btw, its like a game set on hard mod for me). I am very happy that hard work pays off my bills and my decent quality of life.

Edit : spelling

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: Master of Laws + Master of Biotechnology

Years of experience: 3

Function: Legal counsel - contract manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5600

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3200

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, eco cheques, insurances, phone, internet bill covered, performance bonus, additional retirement plan, occasional cash bonuses

Location: East Flanders

Sector/Industry: Pharmaceutical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I managed to get myself a nice thriving position with a good salary package. I am not expecting to leave anytime soon especially since I have a lot of development opportunities internally.

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level 1

Age: 37

Education: BSO verkoop vertegenwoordiging

Years of experience: 6 (in IT in general, 5.5 years as support)

Function: system administrator (just started)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3900

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdchecks, pensioensparen, ziekenhuis verzekering

Location:

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Well just made a step up and it certainly is a nice change of pace, super happy

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· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 33

Education: Master degree in Linguistics

Years of experience: 5 (worked in retail and marketing for a while before this)

Function: teacher full time at a high school plus overtime at a night school

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5300 (3800 at 100% 5300 at 140% of a full time)

  • Christmas and vacation bonus of about 3000 each

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3500

Extra legal-advantages: NMBS abonnement, 14 weeks paid vacation + federal holidays

Location: Antwerp province

Sector/Industry: Education

Are you getting managing content with your current income?: somewhat, single earner household with kids

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level 1

Age: 27

Education: ASO

Years of experience: 6

Function: havenarbeider Markeur

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000 (varies between 2800-3100)

Extra legal-advantages: transportvergoeding, 13de maand, niet-recurrente premie van 1300 euro, hospitalisatieverzekering

Location: Zeebrugge

Sector/Industry: logistics

Yes to managing content

Happy with my work, happy with my wages wouldn't do anything else :)

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level 1

Age: 31

Education: multiple masters (4+)

Years of experience: 10 / 6 in my current field.

Function: Specialist

Monthly salary before taxes: EU + other small gigs (teaching, and other stuffs) EU: 6500 / other gigs: 750

Location: Brussels

Monthly salary after taxes: around 5,4k for EU and 400 for other gigs = 5800 total.

Extra legal advantages: Phone, laptop.

Sector: EU / Teaching / other.

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes because I’m comfortable, but still trying to figure out how to quickly reach 10k netto - feels like an never ending story ;-).

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What did you get 4 masters for?

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level 3

3rd and 4th were just overkill, but i like learning, i will probably never stop, it’s more of a side hobby at this point.

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level 1

Age: 46

Education: Bachelor Chemistry

Years of experience: 25

Function: Lab technician

Monthly salary (before taxes): +-4000 (@4/5 ouderschapsverlof)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-2600

Extra legal-advantages: Pension fund, hospitalisation, eco- and meal vouchers, collective bonuses,13th month, RVA (ouderschapsverlof)...

Location: Limburg area

Sector/Industry: Chemical industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

It's a 9 to 17 job with (in theory) flexible hours. I work with highly toxic, flammable, carcinogenic stuff.. but i feel safe. Sometimes it can be stressy with a crazy work rythm, almost no margin for even little errors and with daily deadlines.

I don't think I have much to complain with my monthly salary, but at the end of the month I can feel the impact of the crisis vs previous years (wife changed to half time with a 'bijberoep' and needs to find some more clients to earn as much as before)

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level 1
· 2 days ago
Vlaams-Brabant

Age: 27

Education: Bachelors Engineering (E&E)

Years of experience: 2 in BE, roughly 2 in ZA

Function: Consultant (Test Engineering/QA)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200

Monthly salary (after taxes): 2315

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card (BE), maaltijdcheques, group health & hospitalisation insurance, company cellphone (latest iPhone 14), IP Reward, referral bonuses

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, though I fear it will take a dent if IPR is scrapped - I just changed jobs for the improved salary and may have to play hardball for a raise if I don’t want that undone

1
level 1

Age: 35

Education: Bachelor degree

Years of experience: 13 years

Function: Business manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4407 euro

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2524,76 euro

Extra legal-advantages: Tesla model 3 , Meal cheque 8 euro/day , Health insurance , up to 8% of yearly wage in bonus

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: E-mobility

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am happy at the moment as my salary will rise again in january 23 by 10% due to inflation although my job is very stressful and has long hours I consider myself lucky.

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level 1

Age: 26
Education: TSO + 2 years of Syntra education (many failed years of collage and retail job went before this)
Years of experience: Started last may
Function: Digital Designer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2200 euro
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1980 euro or something
Extra legal-advantages: Laptop, work from home bonuses, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, a lot of insurances, soon a cafetariaplan will be added, end of year bonus, sectorbonus, they pay 20 euro of my internet subscription, almost complete remote work.
Location:East-Flanders
Sector/Industry: E-Mobility
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Pretty happy with what I make, it's a great company with great collegues, feel pretty appreciated. I live together with my partner in a metropolitan area, so rent is pretty high, and indexation doesn't help. Just got a dog too, that's a big financial burden at the moment. But besides all that, i'm pretty happy with what i'm paid

1
level 1

Age: 35

Education: None, dropped out of high school

Years of experience: 12 years in IT (infra & dev), 6 months as DevOps engineer

Function: DevOps Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4250

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2850

Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel/charging card, internet and phone bill paid by employer, free lunch at office, pension fund, hospitalization insurance

Location: Antwerp (Province)

Sector/Industry: IT Consulting

**Are you getting by / managing / content with your current income?:**Yes to all three, although I know I could earn more by going freelance. However, I recently switched from infra engineer to devops since I wanted to do something new.I took a small gross pay cut but got a lot of extra benefits like a company car in return. So in the end I'm actually better off now than before, which I hadn't expected.I was convinced I'd have to give up more pay in order to make this switch.
Anyway, the plan is to do this for a year or two, to get some experience in the devops field, and then go freelance.

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level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Flanders

Age: 29

Education: Master in Economics, working on postgraduate degree

Years of experience: 5

Function: Manager in Management Consulting

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3200

Extra legal-advantages: holiday pay, 13th month, bonus of € ~ 15.000, car + fuel card, iphone + subscription, eco cheques, hospitalisation, bunch of insurances,…

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Management Consulting

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Happier with every promotion and I feel really appreciated at my current job.

1
level 1

Age : 26

Education : Masters degree in aeronautical engineering

Years of experience : 3

Function : Mechanical engineer in Liège

Monthly salary before taxes : 3650€

Monthly salary after taxes : 2450€

Monthly equivalent (after taxes) of yearly income, including performance bonus and company benefits : 3150€

Avantages : meal vouchers, health insurance, home Internet

Sector : Aerospace

Content : yes

1
level 1

Age:
30

Education:
TSO

Years of experience:
9

Function:
System Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes):
4100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):
2500

Extra legal-advantages:
Cellphone, laptop, Mobi budget (900 euro)

Location:
BXL

Sector/Industry:
IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Yes


fun fact. If you work >50% from home you can use your Mobi budget to pay your mortgage so that's an extra 900 euro net.

1
level 1

Age: 29

Education: Master in Applied Economics (TEW)

Years of experience: 6

Function: Finance Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5,867.

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3,317

Extra legal-advantages: hospitalisation, group insurance, bonus system (between 20% to 40%), laptop and phone

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: FMCG

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? While I shouldn’t complain, I still earn less then my peers plus the demands for the job are high. The potential bonus is the money maker, but makes the job quite stressful. In all honesty, I would prefer working for myself and starting my own company.

1
level 1

Age 25

Education TSO + Military Tech sgt.

Years of expierence 6

Current job government admin + privat chauffeur for gov official

Before Taxes +/- 3450eur After taxes +/- 2350eur

Extra benefits smartphone and simcard

Sector gov

Location Leuven

No problems so far payin my bills and saving some money.

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level 2

are those 2 seperate jobs or a combination of duties?

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level 3

Combination of 2 duties on 1 job

1
level 1

Age: 36

Education: Civil and industrial engineer in construction

Years of experience: 10 years of experience

Function: Studie-ingenieur; live streamer and "content" creator and investor

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.5k from my main job + 2,5k from "content" creation

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around 4.5k

Extra legal-advantages: meeting other content creators

Location: Home/Brussels

Sector/Industry: Civil engineering

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:it's ok, not as much as my friends make

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 27

Education: Master in Commercial Sciences

Years of experience: 4

Function: Business Controller

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 4.500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2.700 (= € 2.500 + € 200 net allowance)

Extra legal-advantages: Daily allowances for days abroad + meal vouchers + company car + charging card (electric) + insurance package

location: 30% at headquarters in Antwerp + 70% locations worldwide

Sector/Industry: Real estate

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, being away from home for longer periods isn't easy while being in a relationship. But the extra pay really helps for saving up for a down payment.

1
level 1

Age: 29

Education: don't have any diploma, stopped school at 5th secondary

Years of experience: 7 years as seller ( D2D, B2B, store ) / 6 months in actual job

Function: CSP / ICT Operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2100€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1800€

Extra legal-advantages: Fuel card

Location: Hainaut

Sector/Industry: Cloud services

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm actually ok with my salary because my boss trusted my skills and gived me a chance even if i never performed any job in cloud services, i learned by myself to be there. Second reason why i'm ok with it is that in 2018 i started to be independant with an associate for a Dance Club and 1 year after, my associate rip off me while i was in hospital for an operation, he leaved the country with all the money, he was in charge of the administrative in our business but he lied to me and never did anything, i was young and he took advantage of that, i had to pay everything alone after he leaved, assuming everything alone with really big things to pay i loosed everything i builded in my life, even my fiance leaved me. Now i'm almost out of my debts but it was really hard for the past 3 years. I really thanks my actual boss for the chance he gived to me because now i do a job that i love, if anybody is passing trough a hard time, hang on there is always a way to get out the shitstorm !

1
level 1

Age: 39

Education: HBO in accounting

Years of experience: 10 in my current domain, 7 at my current employer

Fuction: deskundige software SAP

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 4.967,29

Monthly salary (after taxes): € 2.800 (roughly, there could be as much as € 100 extra when I use my bike to get to work)

Extra legal-advantages: pension plan, health insurance, corporate benefits platform, free unlimited use of De Lijn, TEC and MIVB, meal vouchers, mobile phone

Location: Flanders, but mostly Gent and home

Sector/Industry: Public transportation

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, of course I feel the rising energy prices but I realise that there are many people that have to make do with a lot less. I know that I'm in a luxury position because the mortgage on my appartment is only € 200 a month but I did work hard to be where I am today. I didn't go to college, got my HBO in night school and for my current job I was supposed to have a masters degree. Luckily by taking a "niveauproef" and an assessment and having a good interview I was able to land the job.

1
level 2

200 euro mortgage?

Bought cheap? or some structure where youre nearing the end of mortgage?

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level 3

When I bought the place almost 6 years ago my monthly payments were almost € 700 a month. But my father passed away some time ago so when my grandmother passed away 2 years ago me and my siblings inherited instead of my father. I used the money to pay of a large part of the mortgage leaving just enough to still make full use of the "woonbonus". And because of the reforms in the "woonbonus" leaving € 42.000 in the mortgage was enough for that.

1
level 1

Age: 36

Education: Master in biomedical engineering

Years of experience: 8

Function: Data scientist

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000

Extra legal-advantages: Car, meal voucher

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: Medical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I want more and want to evolve quickly. So I am doing consultancy and other job during my spare time. For my lifestyle (I am not a money burner) it is ok. I can save a little bit more than half of my income (by reimbursing the credit for my own house=investing, and saving on my bank account).

1
level 1

Age: 32

Education: ASO + intern courses for the company

Years of experience: 12

Function: Key user Sales

Monthly Salary before taxes: 3277 (bruto)

Monthly Salary after taxes: 2611 (including bonusses)

Extra legal advantages: allowance/kilometre, meal vouchers, monthly extra expenses paid back (declaration)

Location: Sint-Denijs-Westrem

Sector/Industry: Retail for sleeping / boxsprings etc

Are you getting managing/content with your current income: I get paid quite well for the sector I'm in. I could be always better though. Hard to save money because of buying a house with al the necesseties.

1
level 1

Age: 35

Education: professional bachelor

Years of experience: 5 (in current field)

Function: software test engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- 2300€

Extra legal-advantages: yearly bonus (about 3k net), car+ fuel, phone, insurance ..

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: IT, public sector

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

1
level 1

Age: 23

Education: bachelor sureveyor (vastgoed: Landmeten)

Years of experience: 1

Function: Surveyor

Monthly salary (After taxes): €2300 .

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers 160, ecocheques, mobile phone + mobile plan (unlimited mobile data), car (Volkswagen Passat), Diesel.

Location: West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: infrastructure

Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: I'm still under intrim contract, don't know how to feel about it :/. It's just weird because my boss pays a lot more for me than if he would just give me a contract.

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago
Brussels

Age: 30

Education: MPH

Years of experience: ~5 in 3 different fields

Function: Product Analyst/Manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3838

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2300-2500 depending on the month.

Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel, health insurance, group insurance (pension), 13th month, meal cheques, discount from a bunch of stores. More advantages you can pay for using your yearly bonus.

Location: Ghent/Brussels

Sector/Industry: IT (Manufacturing)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes! I will go for more soon but content for now :)

1
level 1

Age: 41

Education: ASO

Years of experience: 20

Function: Sales manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000 + bonus between 15 and 30%

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800 ( including bonus, 13th month and vacation, I have between 3600 and 4000€/month)

Extra legal-advantages: car, phone, mealcheques, hospitalisation, pensionplan, hybrid working

Location: Leuven

Sector/Industry: Metal

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

1
level 1

Age: 23

Education: Master of Political Science

Years of experience: 1

Function: policy agent

Monthly salary before taxes: 3500eur

Monthly salary after taxes: 2700

Extra legal advantages: none

Location: Brussels

Sector: defence and space industry

Managing with income: yes, even get to save a fair bit

1
level 1

Age: 34

Education: lagere school

Years of experience: 7

Function: IT Support

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000

Extra legal-advantages: BMW 1 series, meal vouchers, phone plan

Location: Mechelen

Sector/Industry: IT Support

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: If I didn't live together with my wonderful also IT worker gf I would be currently still be living in a 20m2 studio 30m from the spoorlijn antwerpen-brussel and be slowly going insane from the noise and nightly gunshots.


We save around 600 per month together

1
level 1

Age: 23

Education: master degree in electromechanical engineering

Years of experience: 0

Function: Process engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050

Extra legal-advantages: Food vouchers, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, company car (BMW X1).

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Chemical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm very happy to have this wage as a fresh graduate.

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 25

Education: 7th year bso

Years of experience: 6

Function: industrial service refrigeration engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): depends on the Hours i do but without overtime it is € 3205

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2562

Extra legal-advantages: phone, tablet, hospitalisation insurance for €10 month, 13th month pay, if we hit the numbers we get a €500 bonus, €11,1 everyday for coming to work and 12 extra payed vacation days (adv)

Location: geel

Sector/Industry: industrial refrigeration

Are you getting managing/content with your current income? I think for my age and my education i'm not gonna complain.

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 22

Education: ASO science and math

Years of experience: 1y and 2 months

Function: traffic controller for the railway

Monthly salary (before taxes): no idea

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2k to €2,6k

Extra legal-advantages: Meal cheques €5,5 a day, health and hospitalision insurance, €5,5 a day, free railway pass for the Benelux, - 2 free tickets for the thalys/eurostar and other various discounts

Location: hasselt, available in several cities

Sector/industry: transport, railroad

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: no

1
level 1

I'm happy with what I get paid but I doubt/hope the posts here are not indicative for the average salary. I make less then what I see here posted by people a lot younger than me.

1
level 2
Op · 2 days ago
Choccy lover or something

I certain it isn't. For one, this subreddit tends to attract a certain demographic by it's own. I doubt there any many boomer ladies who work a simple desk job here or young immigrants that work in the art sector just to give an example, this sub seems to mostly attract relatively affluent young men who work in STEM or business-oriented fields.

Secondly as /u/Bitt3rSteel commented, this is just a bunch of people jacking themselves off as they brag about their cushy job. If you don't earn as much you'd be less likely to post as it can be experienced as somewhat humiliating.

5
level 1

Sportteacher age 39

2550€ after taxes

  • Physical coach / tennis coach after school 1200€ after taxes

Invest my spare money in dividend stocks and REITS 400 € after taxes

3700 € + 400 € dividend after taxes in total.

1
level 1

Age: 28

Education: master business

Years of experience: 4

Function: advisor insurance

**Monthly salary (before taxes):**3500

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2400

Extra legal-advantages: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, food cheques, eco cheques, 13th month, Phone, laptop,

Location: West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Insurance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: saving 1000 eur per month for now

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 39

Education: TSO with 1 extra year of specialisation

Years of experience: 12

Function: process operator - bordfunctie - volcontinu shiften

Monthly salary (before taxes): 6500€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3350€

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques, medical and extra medical (ambulant/dental/optical) insurance, electric car, phone/tablet, pension plan

Location: port of Antwerp

Sector/Industry: chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very happy with this package.

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 45-50, male

Education: Bachelor (A1)

Years of experience: 17 (in this particular line of work), 25 years active on the job market

Function: Responsible for security

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.450 (October 2022 - full time work regime)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3.270 (October 2022)

Extra legal-advantages: 13th month, personnel tariff on energy, mobile phone (due to being on call), internet, laptop, pensionfund, hospital insurance, MC's

Location: Flanders

Sector/Industry: Energy sector

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Most of it is being invested in our home, renovating it over time (new roof, heating, windows etc) as it was built in the 70's. The pay is good, but I stay for the constant change, necessity to adapt and shift focus quickly when necessary. It gives me freedom to fill out my day as I see fit, but it works both ways, sometimes everything you planned to do gets thrown out because something else pops up.

1
level 1

Age: 32

Education: TSO STW, tried bachelor journalism, teacher and IT. Finished nothing

Years of experience: almost 8 years with current employer

Function: assistent (to the ;-)) manager

Monthly salary (before taxes): depends on targets the shop gets. Normally around 3350€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): bad month 2050€ , Good month 2400€

Extra legal-advantages: maaltijd cheques, 13th month en holiday money. If I earn to much with the targets, an amount goes in a ‘potteke’ every month. Potteke gets paid in january.

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: electronics retail

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I think I have a nice income for the diploma I have. I do work longer days than most.

1
level 1

Age: 28

Education: bso + 7the year

Years of experience: 4

Function: Commercial/Logistics

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2209.96

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1845 (including 105 'net compensation) so my real net is 1740€

Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel + MC (7€/day) + eco cheques + bonus when company does 5% extra

Location: West-flanders

Sector/Industry: Natural Stone

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes (can always be more), we seem to survive, the GF earns more then me and we try to save 500€/month.currentyly getting a degree in distance learning for an geting myself an IT job

1
level 1

Age: 31

Education: bachelor accounting

Years of experience: 6

Function: supply chain analyst (or something like that)

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2300 (including netto vergoeding €150)

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers €6, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, phone subscription, laptop, Company car with tankkaart

Location: limburg

Sector/Industry: production company

Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: Yes and no . I still struggle some months to put away some savings due to high fixed costs ( loan, food, gas and electricity )

1
level 1

What's your salary? 2022 edition

**Age:**19

**Education:**finished TSO and did a specialization year in chemistry

**Years of experience:**0.5

**Function:**proces operator

**Monthly salary (before taxes):**4650

**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2900 (not including maaltijdcheques)

**Extra legal-advantages:**maaltijdcheques, health card, incurances,...

Sector/Industry: chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am very pleased with my current income as i can live without worrying about not being able to pay something. That was the only thing i was worried about coming from a family that was in the upper lower class (poor but rich enough to just pay for everything). I can now buy all the luxury i want and wish for everyone to be able to do the same. :)

1
level 1

Age : 27

Education: University Master in Chemical Engineering (done in 6 years)

Years of experience: 3,25 in this position (+ 5 months of internship in a kind of similar position in a different company)

Function: Junior R&D project Engineer

Before tax : 3000€ (yearly indexed)

After taxes : 2150€

Advantages : meal vouchers, "eco" vouchers, group hospital insurance, company car, fuel paid, 12 RTT, flexibility in work schedules

Localisation : Mons

Sector : Environment/ Industrial wasteland management

Am I content? Well, yes, my girlfriend and I are becoming homeowners this year (but with financial and "workforce" help). Even though that and the energy crisis will put pressure on my budget I can't really complain. It's a good situation. On the other hand I feel a bit underpaid for my education and years of experience, even more regarding the current inflation.

1
level 2

You need to hop jobs a bit. Look around the job market place. Gauge your real value. Because I agree, your education suggests a higher salary.

2
level 3

I'm currently looking but it's hard to find a position in the fields I like (everything in the broad sustainable development, food or in R&D) . I already had a few propositions for interviews but was either not interesting or I hadn't the right profile (they were looking for or preferred bachelors to me). So hard to tell my value when they prefer the cheaper alternative (sorry for my fellow industrial engineers friends )

1
level 1
· 2 days ago
Dutchie

Just curious, because I have been thinking about my salary a lot. Is Belgium (housing, healthcare, food) way cheaper than the Low Lands? I can imagine this influences salary.

1
level 1

Age: 31

Education: Highschool (TSO)

Years of experience: 7 years current job (+1 year of a mix bag of other jobs)

Function: Factory worker

Monthly salary (before taxes): ~4000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~2500

Extra legal-advantages: Food stamps, profit sharing bonus, end of the year bonus, health insurance, MyBenefits, ADV days, seniority leave (getting my 10th day next year)

Location: Datwyler Alken

Sector/Industry: Pharmaceutical Factory

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah I'm content. I can pay off my bills and even in these crazy times manage. It's an oke job that comes with it's ups and downs (almost got my arm ripped off by a machine 2 weeks ago).

1
level 1

Age: 35

Education: high school - elektromechanics

Years of experience: 10

Function: furnace operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): varies between €4500 and €5000 depending on the shifts i’m working

Monthly salary (after taxes): varies between €2300 to €3000

Extra-legal advantages: maaltijdcheques

Location: Olen

Sector/Industry: metal

1
level 2

Umicore Olen?

1
level 3

Yep

1
level 1

Age: 25 Éducation : Bachelors degree in Translation Gross Salary : 2500 +2500 (commission) Net salary : 3170 Years of experience: 3 months. First full time job Field: Finance (Sales Manager) I save approximatively 1500€ à Month month living at my parents

1
level 1

Age: 31

Education: TSO

Years of experience: 7

Function: IT Sales

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2600

Extra legal-advantages: car, meal vouchers, phone subscription, health insurance, …

Location: BXL

Sector/Industry: IT infrastructure

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes

1
level 1

Age: 38

Education: Technical Secondary Education

Years of experience: 19

Function: Operator Set-up Department

Monthly salary (before taxes): €4500 (varies +- €200/month).

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2850

Extra legal-advantages: Ecocheques, maaltijdcheques, incentives, groepsverzekering

Location: Tielt, West-Flanders

Sector/Industry: Chemical industry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, with my wage and my wife's (€3000 net) we can live comfortably and don't have to wonder about things. And also no... For my wage I have to work early, late and night shifts. I have to work holidays and 'brugdagen'. And I have to work 2 out of 4 weekends. So nice wage, yes, but could/should be better. I have to miss out on alot of things and I feel that working shifts is weighing on me...

1
level 1

Age: 28

Education: Bachelor Marketing

Years of experience: 5 years

Function: HR Business Partner

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2421

Extra legal-advantages: Car+fuel card, hospitalisation insurance, group insurance, meal vouchers (€7.72/day), phone allowance (€10/month), phone subscription, net allowance (€247), CAO Bonus (€1.8K net), yearly bonus in warrants (€7.3K gross), double vacay pay, 13th month,

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: IT consultancy

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: pretty happy. flexible work hours and there is still room to grow personally and salary wise.

1
level 1

Age: 29

Education: Master of Laws + Manama

Years of experience: 5,5 (3 in current employment)

Function: Legal advisor

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3230

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400-2500

Extra legal-advantages: 13 month, maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, bonus, groepsverzekering, hospitalisatieverzekering

Location: West Flanders

Sector/Industry: HR/Labour law

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I can live comfortably so I can't complain

1
level 1

Age: 28

Education: Master

Years of experience: 4y

Function: Claims Handler

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4.300 EUR

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.700 EUR

Extra legal-advantages: Mealvouchers, ecocheques, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, performance bonus.

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: Insurance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

1
level 1

Age: 21

Education: 7th year chemical proces engineering

Years of experience: 1

Function: proces operator

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5220€

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000€

Extra legal-advantages: Bike, car and ICT leasing. hospitalization, Dental and eyecare insurance, free private bus transport to site.

Location: Antwerp harbour

Sector/Industry: Chemistry

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes!

1
level 1

Age: 40
Education: ASO and VDAB cursussen
Years of experience:10
Function: IT
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2755.15
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1928.36
Extra legal-advantages: Maaltijdcheques, mobile subscription and employer contribution for internet at home.
Location: West Flanders
Sector/Industry: Local government
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Pretty happy so far, certainly after quite a lot of years working in the private sector.

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level 1
· 2 days ago
Belgian Fries

Age: 27

Education: bachelor IT

Years of experience: 5

Function: datacommunication/network engineer in shifts

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4195 without shifts (with shifts 4800-6500 depending on amount of shifts)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2535 without shift work (including shift work 2800-3500 net)

Extra legal-advantages: only meal vouchers

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industryffffff: public transport

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I'm young and can do shift work easily. Not sure how it will work out with kids but that won't happen anytime soon. I could get a company car with slightly less pay in other jobs but prefer to drive what I like.

1
level 1

Age: 29

Education: PhD in STEM

Years of experience: 1.5 + 5 for PhD (does it count?)

Function: Data Scientist

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400

Extra legal-advantages: SNCB sub, meal vouchers, hospital insurance

Location: BrusselsSector/Industry: Space

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I like my job, my colleagues are nice, it's wayyy better than my PhD but I can't help but feel like I'm being ripped-off. I did receive offers from companies outside Belgium with much higher salaries (65k and 85k in much more expensive cities) but could not accept due to personal reasons.

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level 2

PhDs in Belgium are not very highly valued. The anglosphere has a very different approach to them.

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level 1

Age: 26

Education: master (MBA, Information Management)

Years of experience: First job ( did 3 internships in big companies)

Function: Data Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100

Extra legal-advantages:

Location: BXL

Sector/Industry: Business analytics

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes

1
level 1

Age: 24

Education: Bachelor in science and extra bachelor in bio-informatics + some extra educations

Years of experience: 2

Function: Lab Technician in research facility linked to an university

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050

Extra legal-advantages: bicycle allowance, bicycle allowance

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: Science (Research)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, Its for sure not a bad loan for my age, but the reason I am content is because I love what I do and know how lucky I was to work where I work now. Other companies can offer me a loan of 4000+ and I would still decline almost all of them.

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level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 27

Education: Masters in economy & IT

Years of experience: 4,5

Function: Project manager, Business analyst/architect, whatever is needed

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4,2 K

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2,45 K

Extra legal-advantages: Car, Internet, All types of vouchers, 2 laptops, printer, Hospital insurance, phone + data plan

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: IT at a port company

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Definitely, can't complain but its getting about time for the PC200 increase!

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level 1
· 2 days ago
Antwerpen

Age: 38

Education: BSO (High school)

Years of experience: 18

Function: Servicedesk Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 3216,02 + €300 - 500 from my bijberoep.

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/-€ 2380,83

Extra legal-advantages: Meal Vouchers, Group Insurance (Life, Death, Guaranteed income insurance), 40% Discount Zoo / Planckendael

Location: Antwerp

Sector/Industry: Healthcare / Education

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. We are a family of 4. Both adults have a stable income. As mentioned I have a side activity (administrative guidance for families) and my wife (Full time teacher) has a flexi at a restaurant.
We are managing quite well financially thanks to budgetting. Thank you YNAB.
This tool pays itself tenfold each year.

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level 1

Age: 26

Education: Master of Science / Industrial Engineer ICT & Electronics (with Professional Bachelor)

Years of experience: 3 years of working, ~7 of hobby programming

Function: Software Quality Engineer (Consultant)

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3050

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2270 (this includes €300 net allowance, we have no meal vouchers)

Extra legal-advantages: Teal company (self managing company), flexible "mobility budget" incl company car, net allowance, profit sharing, eco cheques, pension saving, very comprehensive healthcare, phone plan,

Location: Main office in Herentals, but everywhere in Flanders really.

Sector/Industry: IT, R&D

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Honestly, I should't have anything to complain about. But I'm paying of a steep mortgage (911€) alone, so the recent price increases of food & energy have me worried. I'm working on becoming better at budgeting, so it's easier to keep track.


PS: We are hiring. If you got a knack for software engineering and think you would fit in a self steering company, send me a DM, or contact us via our website. It's not hard to find if you do some cyber stalking.

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level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 24

Education: Bachelor Elektomechanica

Years of experience: 1,5

Function: Hardware Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2864

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2152

Extra legal-advantages: 13th month.Mobile phone, Laptop Pension Fund And if I need to go the customers I don’t need to use my private car and can use a company car.

Location: Maastricht ( The Netherlands)

Sector/Industry: Technology

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I think I don’t have anything complain about, The Netherlands are not a bad country to work in as a Belgian the only thing is that you need healthcare insurance that you will never use because if you are sick or anything you will always probably go to a Belgian doctor/hospital. Wage is more than okay I think. Would love a company car and maaltijdcheques but okay.

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level 1

Age: 29

Education: Bachelor of Communication&Electronics engineering

Years of experience: 4 Years

Function: Software Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3380

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 2500

Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, Pension, Transportation paid, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, Laptop, mobile phone.

Location: Antwerpen

Sector/Industry: Defense

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:Not really because of my spending habits and high medical expenses i need to pay every month.

1
level 1
· 2 days ago · edited 2 days ago

Age: 30

Education: Bachelor of Graphic Designer

Years of experience: 6

Function: Sales Consultant in a Drugstore (CP207 in Belgium)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3340

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2290

Extra legal-advantages: overtime because we are on a 4-days week (9H30 a day)

Location: Wallonia

Sector/Industry: CP 207 (Chemical industry). Nothing to do with my degree

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No problem

1
level 1

Age: 25

Education: Bachelor in business management - Accountancy

Years of experience: 4

Function: Accountant

Monthly salary (before taxes): € 2.800

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): approx €2.100, net allowance included.Extra legal-advantages: company car, meal vouchers, eco vouchers once a year and phone subscription.

Location: Province of Antwerpen

Sector/Industry: Accounting sector (not Big Four)

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Am I managing with my current income? Sure. I try to keep my expenditures in check and rarely splurge on expensive stuff.

Am I content with my income? Not really, considering the amount of work and stress I deal with year round. Work-life balance is downright bad once you reach a certain level of responsibility. And if it isn't, it's probably because you're neglecting one deadline or another.

Working in accounting as an employee also means you're most likely stuck in one of the few paritair comités where wage indexation isn't required. So enjoy negotiating a raise every year just to keep your standard of living on the same level.

1
level 1

Age: 28

Education: Master

Years of experience: 3

Function: Data analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5k

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.9k

Extra legal-advantages: meal voucher, insurance

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: Chemical

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am managing but “unhappy”. My peers earn twice as much and do much less. It seems this country discourages earning more unless you are happy with all your money going to the government (no thanks!)

1
level 1

Age: 34

Education: bachelors, masters, professional qualification

Years of experience: 12

Function: Actuary (Expert)

Monthly salary (before taxes): 6300 (pre January indexation)

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3700

Extra legal-advantages: car, fuel card, meal vouchers, pension scheme, bonus (10%), internet, phone, insurance

Location: Brussels

Sector/Industry: insurance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes. But could be more!

1
level 1

Age: 30

Education: TSO

Years of experience: 1 years

Function: Support

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3340

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2392

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, gas card, DKV insurance, 13th month

Location: Antwerpen

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I can not complain

1
level 1

Age: 45
Education: IT certs
Years of experience: +20 years
Function: IT Infrastructure Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000
Extra legal-advantages:
paid internet at home
phone + phone credit
company car
laptop
meal vouchers
eco cheques

extra expenses
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: all good

1
level 1

Age: 30
Education: Communication Science
Years of experience: 8
Function: Founder
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2900
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, phone, laptop and of course the profit of the company if applicable
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Sector/Industry: Creative industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Absolutely

1
level 1

Age: 32

Education: Bachelor IT

Years of experience: 10

Function: Full Stack/Cloud Developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400

Extra legal-advantages: Company car, Meal vouchers, hospital insurance, pension scheme, laptop

Location: Hasselt, Belgium

Sector/Industry: Tax/Accountancy ICT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes

1
level 1

Age: 26

Education: two bachelor degrees

Years of experience: 2

Function: I teach English and Dutch in secondary school

Monthly salary (before taxes): €3053

Monthly salary: €2000

Extra legal-advantages: none

Location: West-Vlaanderen

Sector: education

1
level 1

Age: 25

Education: Professional Bachelor IT

Years of experience: 3

Function: Fullstack Developer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050

Extra legal-advantages: Company car with fuel card, Laptop, Meal cheques (€8/day), Eco cheques, 13th month, 14th month, Benefits@Work, insurances

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: IT

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: In comparison with others in the thread I feel the difference between my bruto and netto salary is really high?

1
level 2

Wie doet de uitbetalingen, de werkgever zelf of extern bedrijf zoals SD Works?

2
level 3

Extern bedrijf. Kan dat een groot verschil maken?

1
level 4

Een extern bedrijf zoals SD Works helpt de werkgever een voordelig uitbetaling te regelen voor zijn werknemer, doormiddel van auteursrechten bv. Ik ken kleinere IT bedrijven die zulke zaken niet weten of doen.

1
level 1

Age: 41

Education: graduate degree (old system, so graduaat)

Years of experience: 14 yearsFunction: Network & Security Engineer

Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.130 when full time, but I'm, doing 4/5 at the moment, so 4.104. But I do standby duty which is about €6-700 per month

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2.932 (4/5 system, including the standby duty)

Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, netto onkostenvergoeding (140 euro), internet (40 euro), byod (5 euro). All together, with "wacht" + extra legal advantages €3.066 net in a 4/5 system.

Location: Limburg

Sector/Industry: Healthcare

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: It works. We're trying to keep the same standard of living as before we both did 4/5, got 2 kids the last 4 years,... So we feel the last year also.

1
level 1

Age: 22

Education: Professional Bachelor Accountancy fiscaliteit

Years of experience: Just started

Function: Bouwkundig tekenaar

Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900

Extra legal-advantages: Hospitaliesatie, groepsverzekering, maaltijdcheques

Location: My village

Sector/Industry: Bouw

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:

I guess it's decent wage for starters? I think the only thing that's holding me back is not pursuing more education or working at a bigger company with more room to grow. I do detest the big company culture and work culture surrounding it. And I can still study when I'm a bit older so not all hope is lost lmao

1
level 1

Age: 32

Education: professional bachelor

Years of experience: 11

Function: credit analyst

Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2700 + maaltijdcheques

Extra legal-advantages: groepsverz, hospitalisatie , gewaarborgd inkomen (eerste jaar bij ziekte blijft volwaardig loon) , 13de maand, allerhande kortingen

Location: West Vlaanderen

Sector/Industry: bank

Are you getting managing/content with your current income : could be beter but is ok

1
level 1
· 3 hr. ago
Oost-Vlaanderen

Age: 32

Education: no higher education, just high school

Years of experience: 9 years

Function: Local IT

Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200

Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100

Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel card, phone + subscription, internet, hospitalisatie & tandverzekering for me and the whole family, maaltijdcheques (8EUR), ecocheques (210EUR), 13de maand, vakantiegeld, Group insurance, Bonus system group insurance (2K a year), gewaarbord inkomen, onkostenvergoeding (75EUR), laptop; telework compensation

Location: Ghent

Sector/Industry: Healthcare Insurance

Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No reason to complain

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